The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is asking to be allocated four parliamentary and 12 state seats for it to contest in the coming general election.

Its president, M Kayveas, said the seats asked for were in Penang, Perak and Kuala Lumpur while the choice of candidates was left to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who is also Barisan Nasional (BN) chairperson, to decide.

Speaking to reporters after officially opening the Batu Caves-Maran 1Malaysia Big Walk in Kuala Lumpur yesterday, he said the choice of seats was based on a field study carried out by the party.

In the last general election in 2008, PPP was allocated two seats in Perak - the Taiping parliamentary seat and Pasir Berdamar state seat - which they lost to DAP candidates.

Kayveas said PPP had drawn up various programmes including dialogues, seminars and meetings with new voters to win their support for BN.

- Bernama