Election Commission chairman Abdul Ghani Salleh today revealed that a candidate with the highest votes in the Padang Serai parliamentary seat and the Tioman state seat in the 15th general election will still be declared as winners even if they had announced their withdrawal.
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Abdul Ghani Salleh said, “We will still declare them as the winners, although they had announced their withdrawal. Candidates are only allowed to withdraw during the nomination process.”
He further said that this is because a candidate’s candidacies had been confirmed during the nomination day which was on November 24. He said this after inspecting the polling process at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sultan Badlishah in Kulim today.