00:00Bersatu's focus on negative campaigning against UMNO and its candidate showed that
00:06it had run out of ideas for the Makota by-elections.
00:09This is what political analysts told FMT after Barca Nacional's Said Hussein Saeed Abdullah
00:15won with a majority of 20,648 votes last night, while Bersatu's Haizan Jafar garnered only
00:227,614 votes.
00:25Analyst Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid said Bersatu's focus on negative attacks was evidently not
00:30appealing to the electorate.
00:32He also said Perikatan Nasional, particularly Bersatu, did not offer Makota voters anything
00:38substantial during the campaign.
00:41Among the negative attacks was a claim that Said Hussein had a criminal record and an
00:45attempt to link UMNO leader Puad Zakashi to a possible spread of communism.
00:50Analyst Azrul Hadi Abdullah Sani said Bersatu was resorting to recycling UMNO's playbook
00:55from the 90s by disparaging the character of its rivals.
00:59He said the party must offer more to the voters than just religious and race-baiting rhetoric.
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