KUALA LUMPUR - The Federal Territory Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) are confident of wresting the six seats that were lost to the opposition in the last general election.
Deputy chairman of the Federal Territory Umno Liaison Body Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin said he was also confident that besides defending the existing seats, BN would increase the number of seats in the 13th general election based on the trend of support for the BN from urban voters lately.
In the last general election, BN could only defend three parliamentary seats, namely Setiawangsa, Putrajaya and Labuan while losing Lembah Pantai, Batu, Titiwangsa, Bandar Tun Razak, Segambut and Wangsa Maju to the opposition.
Four other parliamentary seats, namely Kepong, Seputeh, Cheras and Bukit Bintang remained with the opposition too.
Raja Nong Chik said the opposition pact elected representatives in the Federal Territory did not bring any progress except to raise issues aimed at creating public anger against Umno and the government.
"But we look at the outcome of government efforts in Kuala Lumpur such as the implementation of the Greater Kuala Lumpur (Greater KL), National Key Economic Areas (NKEA), the sale and maintenance of houses under Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) which showed that the government is concerned about the welfare of the residents here," he told Bernama at the Putra World Trade Centre, here.
Raja Nong Chik said the election machinery in the Federal Territory was also actively making efforts to attract the young voters through various programmes.
"The young voters are important because the percentage of new voters in the Federal Territory has reached almost 25 per cent and this means that the young voters determine to a certain extent our victory in the 13th general election," he said.
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