Kit Siang urges hope in hopelessness, recalls twin polls despair

Amid a despondent opposition, DAP’s Iskandar Puteri MP Lim Kit Siang has recalled the “hopelessness” when Pakatan Harapan lost badly in the Kuala Kangsar and Sungai Besar by-elections in 2016 but managed to turn it around in the 2018 general election.

He said following the 2016 twin by-elections, there was "doom and gloom" about the prospect of political change.

He pointed out that in the Sungai Besar by-election...