GEORGE TOWN: For more than a decade, Penang has been seen as a fixed deposit for Pakatan Harapan, and a fourth term in power regarded as all but a done deal.
However, that notion was rattled last year at the parliamentary elections, when the new cohort of 18 to 21-year-old voters and Malays on the mainland showed their preference for Perikatan Nasional, allowing it to snap up three seats.
One of those seats happened to be the ‘keramat’ Permatang Pauh, which had been held by Anwar Ibrahim’s family for nearly three decades.