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The wind is in Streram's sails

COMMENT | Would PKR's Dr S Streram have won the Rantau state seat on May 9 last year had he not been prevented from filing his nomination papers?

It is sterile to dwell on hypotheticals, but this question will continue to tantalise because in the tally for the Rembau parliamentary seat – under which Rantau falls – the PKR candidate had more votes in the state ward than the eventual winner, Khairy Jamaluddin.

Rantau and Paroi, two of the four state wards under Rembau gave the voting edge to PKR's Roseli Abdul Ghani, although has was still 4,000-plus votes adrift of Khairy's overall tally of 36,096...

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