00:00Government spokesman Fahmy Fazil says a healthy campaign is one of the reasons behind Barisan National's victory in the Arya Kuning Bay election.
00:12In contrast, he said the opposition carried out a racist campaign ahead of the poll and chose topics that did not go down well with the locals.
00:21It is a rejection of that kind of racist politics. Rakyat Malaysia menolak dan khusus di Arya Kuning, mereka tidak boleh menerima dan mereka pilih perpaduan dan melawan perpecahanan.
00:38Barisan National's Yusri Bakir won the Bay election after securing 11,065 votes with a 5,006-vote majority
00:48over Parikatan National's Abdul Mohaimin Malik and Party Socialist Malaysia's KS Bawani.
00:55Earlier today, analyst Awang Asman Pawi said PN's over-reliance on past and the rhetoric of championing Malay Muslim issues
01:04may have contributed to the opposition's loss at the Arya Kuning Bay election.
01:10He said the PN strategy had less effect on the moderate malaise and Arya Kuning's multi-ethnic demographic.
