{"id":5509,"date":"2020-08-15T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2020-08-15T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T04:23:10","slug":"three-cornered-fight-in-slim-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=5509","title":{"rendered":"Three-cornered fight in Slim by-election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TANJUNG MALIM, Aug 15&#8211; The Slim state by-election this Aug 29 will witness a three-cornered fight between a Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate and two Independent candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u00a0are Tanjung Malim UMNO deputy chief\u00a0Mohd Zaidi Aziz, 43, for BN, while the Independent candidates are\u00a0\u00a0S. Sentharasekaran, 44, and lawyer Amir Khusyairi Mohamad Tanusi, 38, who is representing the yet-to-be registered Parti Pejuang Tanah Air (Pejuang).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-1024x548.jpg\" alt=\"by-election\" class=\"wp-image-5510\" width=\"490\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-1024x548.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-768x411.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-187x100.jpg 187w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-350x187.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-800x428.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement on the list of candidates for the by-election was made by returning officer Shamsul Ridzuan Idris at about 10.35 am after the nomination process at &nbsp;Dewan Sri Tanjung, Majlis Daerah Tanjung Malim closed at 10 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1870525\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TANJUNG MALIM, Aug 15&#8211; The Slim state by-election this Aug 29 will witness a three-cornered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c.jpg",1080,578,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-300x161.jpg",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-768x411.jpg",640,343,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c-1024x548.jpg",640,343,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c.jpg",1080,578,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c.jpg",1080,578,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c.jpg",1080,578,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c.jpg",1024,548,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/e471021e0f96a9220255f4a9fc0822a45f3751b3be09c.jpg",720,385,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=20\" rel=\"category\">Local<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5511,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions\/5511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}