While her main contender from DAP addressed the crowd in a ceramah on Saturday night, Tsen started her campaign rounds some 30 hours after nomination closed.
PBS was optimistic about pulling off an upset with the combined support of both national and local opposition parties. Wong, who is DAP’s choice for the seat left vacant following the death of her father Datuk Stephen Wong, officially started her campaign trail with her mother Datin Chong Mee Fook and DAP secretary-generalLim expressed his confidence in Wong, saying the political newbie could be the voice of Sandakan as she had the courage to speak up.
Among the bread and butter issues are the economic slowdown, lack of job opportunities and security in this once booming timber town, whose residents hope to bring back the glory days of the 1970s and early 1980s.With the focus on the two major parties, the three independent candidates are also rolling out their own campaigning strategies.