00:00The next question is, what is the reason for diesel and so on?
00:06I think we have to engage more with focus groups,
00:12with the non-Malay voters there, to understand their motivation of not
00:17coming out.
00:19But if you look at the level of support from the Malay voters,
00:23if it's true that diesel has a big impact on the vote,
00:32then you would have expected PN to actually increase their share of vote.
00:36But it didn't. It remains exactly the same. It's about 22-78.
00:41Last year, before there was diesel, it was like that. Now, after diesel, it's like that.
00:46So I think we have to look at everything in totality.
00:51So as it is now, if we were to conclude the motivation for the non-Malays
01:00not to turn up, lower turnout, is it diesel?
01:05Is it other issues?
01:06I think that's something that we have to get more data on.
01:10Although I also have to point out, actually,
01:13traditionally, in the PRK and state elections,
01:18the rate of non-Malays is always lower.
01:22That's why I think it's a bit like PRN Johor.
01:28PRN Johor, for example, in 2022, BN won big.
01:34Part of it is because the non-Malay voters didn't come out.
01:38But when it comes to PRU, about seven months later,
01:42the turnout came back, and they rebalanced the whole thing.
01:47So traditionally, non-Malay voters during PRK and PRN
01:54historically had a lower turnout than Malay voters.
01:59I think it's too early for us to conclude anything,
02:09because the parameters are quite clear.
02:11First, we are exactly as we were almost a year ago.
02:21Secondly, the issue is turnout.
02:23Then, of course, do we have enough information
02:26to say the non-Malays didn't turn out about diesel?
02:30I think that we need to go back and find out more.
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