He is being declared as Perikatan Nasional’s (PN) chief minister applicant for Malaysia’s most prosperous state, Selangor. But late senior minister for the economy Azmin Ali’s rallies in his home town seat of Hulu Kelang have a problem in bringing hundreds, let alone the thousands commonly seen squeezing int his events in packs in the past.
To be fair, they are “ceramah kelompok”, a Malay term used for little meetings in housing estates, rather than “ceramah perdana” mega rallies with the opposition coalition’s top national rulers like late premier Muhyiddin Yassin and Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) president Hadi Awan.