KUALA LUMPUR: Having good leadership skills and being popular will not be enough for Gerakan Youth members to be prospective candidates in the next general election.
They must also be healthy to be considered, Gerakan Youth chief Lim Si Pin said yesterday.
“Before we put forth their names to the party leadership, they’ll be filtered in those three areas (leadership, popularity and health),” he told reporters here.
“We want our elected representatives to be healthy people as we don’t want any by-election arising from death while in office,” he added. Lim hoped that the party leaders would field more young blood.
“We hope 40 to 45 per cent of the total number candidates will be young people, male and female. And we also hope that there won’t be any ‘parachute’ candidates,” he said. — Bernama
Lim reiterated that he would not stand as a candidate in the next general election, but would assist behind the scenes. — Bernama