Credit : Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's X
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim says Pakatan Harapan is meeting narrow racial sentiment in Melaka by fielding capable, clean and trustworthy Malay, Chinese and Indian candidates to speak for the people and carry responsibility in the state.
In a post on his X account on November 8, 2026, Anwar contrasted what he called narrow racial sentiment with Harapan’s choice to embrace the strength of Malaysia’s main communities through its candidate line-up.
“When faced with narrow racial sentiment, Harapan chooses to embrace the strength of the Malays, Chinese and Indians by fielding candidates who are capable, clean and trustworthy to carry the people’s voice and bear responsibility in Melaka,” he wrote in Malay.
With humility, he asked Melaka voters to place their trust in the Harapan team, which he said offered hard work, leadership with integrity and a proven record of defending the people and developing the state.
“With a full sense of humility, I ask the people of Melaka to place their trust in the Harapan team, which offers hard work, leadership with integrity and proven achievements in defending the people and advancing the state,” he wrote.
He prayed that May Allah would guide voters in their choice and give Harapan the strength to serve as best as possible, and closed with the hashtags #UndiHARAPAN and #MelakaRumahKita.
The message returns to a theme Anwar has used in the Melaka campaign: that the coalition’s multi-ethnic slate is an answer to racial politics, and that integrity and hard work should guide how voters choose their state representatives.
He did not name individual candidates or seats in the post, keeping the focus on Harapan’s overall approach and on an appeal for trust. The photographs shared with the post showed campaign materials and Harapan branding linked to the Melaka election.
By casting the choice as one between embracing diversity and yielding to narrow racial sentiment, Anwar sought to define the contest on Harapan’s preferred ground — unity across communities and clean leadership — rather than on personality clashes alone.
His prayer that May Allah would illuminate voters’ hearts, and strengthen Harapan to serve well, gave the appeal a spiritual close familiar from his other Melaka campaign posts.
For Melaka voters, Anwar’s pitch remains that Harapan’s Malay, Chinese and Indian candidates are offered as a united team of clean and capable representatives, and that trust should rest on hard work and integrity rather than on racial sentiment. The coalition’s campaign hashtags #UndiHARAPAN and #MelakaRumahKita again framed Melaka as “our home” in the closing of his message.
The November 8, 2026 appeal sits alongside his other Melaka campaign messages this election cycle, which stress service to the whole state and reject communal division, while asking voters to judge Harapan on integrity and delivery.
Anwar did not set out seat-by-seat names in this post, keeping the focus on Harapan’s overall multi-ethnic approach and on a direct ask for trust. Life News Agency is reporting his remarks from the November 8, 2026 X post and has not independently verified individual candidate lists beyond what he stated.
Source: https://x.com/anwaribrahim/status/2119396531619213438
Credit : Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s X
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