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Clearly, Johoreans opine that pencuri-pencuri (thieves) are Okay, but not racial and religious bigots!
To Johoreans, Umno pencuri-pencuri (thieves) are OK, but not racial and religious bigots!
KUALA LUMPUR, July 12, 2026: As expected, the barely 50-day old Bersama, led by staunch reformists Rafizi Ramli and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad (formerly from PKR), did not win a single seat in its debut electoral mission.
Rafizi had been humble as he had said that Bersama would be glad if its 15 candidates did not lose their deposits.
They all lost their deposits.
However, for such a new party even fielding 15 candidates in Johor is an achievement!
However, the young new faces did male an impact on three seats - Perling, Bukit Batu and Stulang.
It was most unfortunate that Bersama was forced to contest in Johor, an Umno political stronghold since Merdeka (Independence) 1957.
Even a federal government coalition like Pakatan Harapan (PH), backed by DAP, was no match for the racial and religious bigoted pencuri-pencuri (thieves of) BN-Umno (specifically 1MDB and Petronas), what more from the debutant Bersama.
It was his own doing that frustrated his multi-racial Malaysian supporters when he chose to not fulfil his electoral reform promises. Instead, he chose to embrace Umno’s politics of patronage and get rid of reformists in his PKR leadership. Now, PH is clearly in serious political trouble. It started with Sabah, then Johor, next … other states and GE16?
No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on Bersama’s political debut:
Bersama’s debut ends seatless, but not impactless
Rafizi Ramli and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad's party failed to win any of the 15 seats it contested, but may have influenced several closely fought contests.
Rafizi Ramli (right) and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad took over Parti Bersama Malaysia in May and relaunched it as their political platform.
PETALING JAYA: Parti Bersama Malaysia’s first electoral outing ended without a single seat in yesterday’s Johor state election, but the fledgling party still managed to shape the outcome by splitting votes in several closely fought contests.
Just weeks after its launch in May, Bersama mounted an ambitious challenge by contesting 15 seats, most of them in constituencies held by Pakatan Harapan or targeted by the coalition.
The party campaigned on a reform agenda focused on issues such as wages, social protection, housing and government accountability, while presenting itself as a fresh alternative to the established political blocs.
A high-profile campaign was also led by co-leaders Rafizi Ramli and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, but none of its candidates managed to secure victory.
However, the party’s presence was felt inPerling, Bukit Batu and Perling and Bukit Batu, both of which were key PH seats that BN’s MIC managed to win.
MIC took hold of Perling from DAP in a three-cornered race, securing a majority of 1,611 votes. Bersama’s candidate, Boo Wei Han, managed to garner 2,996 votes.
In the tighter five-way race for Bukit Batu, MIC emerged the victor with a slim 174-vote majority. Bersama’s candidate, G Tamili, obtained 821 ballots.
This means the votes the two Bersama candidates garnered could have tilted the outcome of the contests in PH’s favour if those ballots had gone to the coalition.
Bersama also significantly reduced PH’s majority’s in Stulang, where DAP won with just a 623-vote majority compared with 2,866 in 2022. Bersama candidate Stanley Tan had managed to win 1,372 votes.
That was perhaps all the encouragement the party could get, given that it struggled to gather enough traction to launch a real challenge in any seat.
The results reinforce claims that Bersama would play the role of a spoiler rather than a political force capable of converting support into seats.
The outcome also raises questions over whether Rafizi’s personal popularity could translate into support for a new political brand, or whether Bersama has yet to establish a distinct identity beyond its roots in PKR.
With the Negeri Sembilan election just three weeks away, Bersama will need to reassess its strategy if it hopes to turn attention into electoral gains.
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