Najib confident BN team of GE13 candidates can take malaysia to greater heights

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KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has expressed confidence that the Barisan Nasional (BN) team of candidates for the 13th General Election (GE13) would transform Malaysia to greater heights.

“Today is Nomination Day. I am confident that the BN team contesting will transform Malaysia to greater heights,” he said in his Twitter message today.

Najib submitted his nomination papers to defend the Pekan parliamentary seat, which he has held since 1976, at 9.08 am at the nomination centre at the Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Convention Hall in Pekan, Pahang.

Nomination of candidates for GE13 closed at 10 am today at the 222 centres nationwide which opened for an hour to accept nominations for the 222 parliamentary and 505 state seats up for contest.

The Election Commission (EC) has set April 30 for early voting and May 5 for the usual polling, leaving the candidates with 15 days from Saturday to campaign.

A total of 13,268,002 people are eligible to vote in this general election, of whom 275,341 are early voters. — BERNAMA