It is very obvious to see the Pakatan Harapan team is lacking in ideas to woo the locals in Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar. The Pakatan coalition represented by Amanah, tend to touch on national issues instead of local issues which are close to the heart of the locals.

On the national front - they often touched only on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and 1MDB issues. Whereas, the BN team is quick to take advantage on the trivial issues and blunders by the Amanah campaigners to hit back. Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail’s ‘Kuih Bengkang’ recipe and the distribution of ‘sawi’ vegetables by Amanah are among others.

While BN contenders Budiman Mohd Zohdi and Mastura Mohd Yazid of Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar respectively, enjoy an added advantage as locals at both constituencies, Pakatan and PAS took a beating for their promises to only pay scheduled visits to meet the locals.

The Pakatan team probably has forgotten that the locals of Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar, have no clue about the intricacies of the economy at large but are more concerned about their simple daily life as farmers, plantation workers, fishermen and the like.

Adding to this, the Pakatan team just watched helplessly at the BN's success in saving the two Sekinchan-based Chinese fishermen from the Indonesian authority for encroaching into Indonesian territorial waters three months ago. This incident would become a major contributing factor for the Chinese votes- especially in Sg Besar - to return to the BN's fold.

Probably, Rafizi Ramli’s adamant stance to not to face Rizal Mansor, the aide to Rosmah Mansor, over the private jet issue involving Rosmah, also could be a setback to the Pakatan team. This incident is stark evidence of Rafizi’s failure to explain about the jet used by Dr Mahathir Mohamad for campaigning.

Adding to this, the contesting parties’ stance on hudud is also believed to play an important role in garnering votes from the both Malay-majority constituencies tomorrow. Amanah’s softer tone on hudud law is definitely going to work against the splinter party of PAS.

Based on the goings-on in the surroundings of the twin by-elections, even a layman could easily speculate that the BN has the upper hand on PAS and Amanah in Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar.

The public also could expect a spike in the BN’s majority votes in the twin by-elections. And not to mention that the order of the parties according to the number of votes would be garnered tomorrow could be like - first place for BN, followed by PAS and Amanah respectively.