HULU SELANGOR: Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate for the Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election Pang Sock Tao today pledged to empower the welfare of youth and women in the constituency as part of her campaign manifesto.

Pang also said she wanted to continue the legacy of the late Lee Kee Hiong, who held the Kuala Kubu Baharu for three terms.

"I am very grateful as my nomination (for the by-election) has been accepted. Starting today, our team, which consists of several component parties representing all races in the unity government, will begin our campaign carefully and with respect (towards other parties).

"If given the mandate, I will also continue the development plans and agenda set by the late Lee.

"The welfare of youth and women is also close to my heart and it is certainly among plans and policies (I plan) to be included in my (campaign) manifesto," she said when met by reporters after the nomination process, today.

Asked on a clip of her criticizing Barisan Nasional (BN) during the 15th General Election campaigning period, she briefly said that the video was an old clip and that the unity government would work hard as a team for the by-election.

"The political landscape in this country is now different and a unity government has been established. I am now a candidate for the unity government, hence, we will move and work hard as a team throughout the campaign (period)," said Pang, who is the former press secretary to the Local Government and Development Minister Nga Kor Ming.

Pang will face a three-corner fight against Perikatan Nasional's (pn) Khairul Azhari Saut, Parti Rakyat Malaysia's (PRM) Hafizah Zainudin and independent candidate Nyau Ke Xin.

Earlier, Election Commission (EC) returning officer Yuhanas Auree Kamaruddin announced that no nomination forms for the four candidates were rejected and that the nomination centre is pleased with the nomination process, which ended at 10am.

The by-election, which has been fixed for polling on May 11, was called following the death of Lee, who succumbed to cancer last month.

In the Selangor state election last year, Lee helped DAP to retain Kuala Kubu Baharu after she polled a majority of 4,119 votes in a four-cornered fight at the state seat.

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