Azalina Thanks Melaka Voters, Says BN Win Is a Trust to Honour Manifesto
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Azalina Othman Said at a Legal Aid Department mediation certificate ceremony in Bangi on 12 November 2026. Photo: BERNAMA
MELAKA, November 15, 2026 — Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said has thanked the people of Melaka for placing their trust in Barisan Nasional (BN), describing the coalition’s victory in the 16th state election as a trust to keep working, fulfil its manifesto and serve everyone.
“Alhamdulillah, thank you to the people of Melaka for their trust in BN,” the UMNO information chief, who is also Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform), wrote on her official X account on Sunday morning. “This victory is a trust to keep working, to fulfil the manifesto and to serve everyone.”
She said the “Blue Wave” (Gelombang Biru) was “a people’s wave born of the continuity of service and of work that has been ongoing.”
The post followed the Election Commission’s official results, which showed that BN won 21 of Melaka’s 28 seats in Saturday’s poll, with Perikatan Nasional (PN) taking three and Pakatan Harapan (PH) four. The commission said 493,573 voters, or 71.77 per cent of the electorate, cast their ballots, a figure that includes ordinary, early and postal voters. BN and PN, which cooperated under the Muafakat Melaka pact, together hold 24 seats, a two-thirds majority in the state assembly. PH retained four seats, all won by the Democratic Action Party (DAP): Ayer Keroh, Kesidang, Bandar Hilir and Kota Laksamana.
In a media statement issued the same day, Azalina said the result was not a reason for the party to grow comfortable. The priority now, she said, was to carry out the manifesto, open jobs for young people and ensure a clean, efficient and people-friendly administration. “This mandate is a trust. The BN-PN state government will serve everyone. No area or community will be left behind,” she said, according to MalaysiaGazette. She also thanked BN chairman Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Melaka BN chairman Datuk Seri Dr Ab Rauf Yusoh, and the UMNO, MCA, MIC and PN machinery for the 14-day campaign, and said seats not won, and voters not yet convinced, “must be approached, listened to and understood.”
Ab Rauf, the Tanjung Bidara assemblyman, was nominated by BN and PN to continue as chief minister and was sworn in for a second term before the Yang di-Pertua Negeri, Tun Mohd Ali Rustam, on Sunday. Ab Rauf retained his seat with a majority of 8,615 votes, up from 364 in the 2021 state election.
Azalina had campaigned in the state in the final days of the contest. On Friday she said she had visited Kampung Pulau Kelapa and Bachang to meet residents, and urged Melaka voters to give BN, under Ab Rauf, the chance to continue bringing progress to the state.
On the other side, Melaka PH chairman Adly Zahari said the coalition accepted the outcome and respected the people’s mandate, despite winning only four of the 24 seats it contested. Adly, a former chief minister, lost the Bukit Katil seat to a PN candidate backed by BN. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who is also PH chairman, congratulated BN on the mandate and said he hoped it would be carried out for the wellbeing of the state and its people. “Now is the time for us to move forward by putting the people’s interests first, and the Federal Government will continue to strengthen cooperation with the Melaka State Government to drive development and ensure the wellbeing of all the people,” he said in a Facebook post.
Source: https://x.com/AzalinaOthmanS/status/2121781569694388439
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