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Perikatan Nasional (PN) deputy chairman Faizal Azumu could be the person who finally ends Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s three-decade quest to become Malaysia’s prime minister.

But he shrugs off the weight of his task, saying opposition leader Anwar might have giant posters of himself up in Tambun, but the man himself is not a giant.

“To me, he’s just a name, he’s just another leader,” Datuk Seri Faizal told The Straits Times on the sidelines of his campaign trail.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asi...s-pm-hopes

7.20pm] Unofficial early vote counts have placed Perikatan Nasional’s Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu. The Sampan man in the lead for the Tambun parliamentary seat, with Pakatan Harapan chairman Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in third place, behind the Barisan Nasional candidate.

Anwar moved here from Port Dickson in Negri Sembilan in an attempt to seize the seat from Ahmad Faizal, who is the Bersatu deputy president, and is favourite to win the seat