KUALA LUMPUR: Former MCA president, Tan Sri Ong Tee Keat, has been named as Parti Warisan (Warisan) candidate to contest one of the 26 parliamentary seats in the Peninsula in the upcoming 15th General Election (GE15).
Warisan president, Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, when announcing candidates for parliamentary seats as well as 16 state seats today, said that thus far, the party will contest three parliamentary seats each in Perlis, Perak and Kuala Lumpur; five seats in Kedah; four seats each in Penang and Selangor; with one seat each in Kelantan, Negeri Sembilan and Johor. Another parliamentary seat will be announced later, while the state seats are nine in Perlis and seven in Perak.
Ong will try to recapture the Pandan parliamentary seat, which he held for two terms from 2004 to 2013 when representing Barisan Nasional (BN), after serving for four terms from 1989 as a Member of Parliament for Ampang Jaya.
Warisan also nominated former PKR member, Wee Choo Keong, to contest the Wangsa Maju parliamentary seat, and former PAS member, Syed Araniri Syed Ahmad, for the Kuala Kedah parliamentary seat.
Other candidates for parliamentary seats include Ko Chu Liang (Padang Besar), Noraini Md Salleh (Pokok Sena), Ong Chin Wen (Batu Kawan), G Balachandran (Gopeng), Khairul Azuan Kamarrudin (Tumpat), Azman Idris (Kuala Pilah) and Mohd Zohar Ahmad (Sekijang).
More to come. - Bernama