Can Sarawak DAP hold its turf against Adenan?

comments     Koh Jun Lin     Published     Updated

Within a fortnight of making major advances in the 2011 Sarawak state election, DAP had started to redouble efforts to spread its influence into rural areas of the state.

Back then, the party managed to double its seats in the state legislative assembly from six seats to 12, hence becoming the largest opposition party in Sarawak.

Part of this has to do with the unpopularity of the then Sarawak chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud in Sarawak's urban centres and ethnic Chinese-majority constituencies, which form DAP's traditional vote base.

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