(The Star) KUALA TERENGGANU: It will be a three-cornered fight for the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat with three candidates having filed their papers on nomination day on Tuesday.

They are Barisan Nasional’s Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh, PAS candidate Abdul Mohd Wahid Endut and independent Azharudin Mamat alias Adam, a 46-year-old businessman.

Wan Ahmad Farid, the former Deputy Home Minister, arrived at the nomination centre at the State Stadium here at about 8.50am, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Terengganu Mentri Besar Ahmad Said, MCA president Ong Tee Keat, Gerakan chief Dr Koh Tsu Koon, MIC’s S. Subramaniam and other Barisan leaders.

PAS’ Abdul Mohd arrived about 10mins later accompanied by party president Hadi Awang and other Pakatan Rakyat leaders.

Independent candidate Isma Airfath was expected to file his papers but did not turn up, although another independent Azharuddin decided to.

The latter arrived at about 9.30am, but left not soon after. He was heard muttering that he could not file his nomination papers and was seen asking for the whereabouts of his sponsor and seconder. He was then seen re-entering the nomination hall about 10mins later and finally filed his papers.

Angkatan Keadilan Insan Malaysia (Akim) vice-president Harun Moahamad arrived at about 9.20am, but pulled out to make way for the PAS candidate.

Police had mounted roadblocks as early as 7am as tens of thousand supporters gathered for nomination day.

A police spokesman said about 30,000 Barisan Nasional supporters and 15,000 PAS supporters had gathered to begin their march to the nomination centre.

There are 80,229 voters in the constituency, of whom 2,036 are postal voters.

The nomination process started at 9am and closed at 10am.

The returning officer is expected to make an official announcement on the candidates by noon.

The by-election is being held following the sudden death of Barisan’s Razali Ismail on Nov 28.

The atmosphere at the nomination centre was relatively calm as only the candidates, their proposers and seconders and a group of not more than 150 supporters were allowed in. No untoward incidents have been reported thus far.

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written by ahmadneil, January 06, 2009 11:11:13

The situation was relatively calm ,then why IGP deploy so many police to KT.
PAS shall win KT with a convincing majority.

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written by Rainbowseahorse, January 06, 2009 11:21:04

Three candidates only?? ...hmmmmm, looks like UMNO is over confident!
I would have thought UMNO’s strategy would be to sponsor as many candidates as possible to pull some votes away from PAS.Obviously, it’s quite true that there is not much unity in UMNO.

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written by borneoman, January 06, 2009 11:23:28

our polis so smart ha,even numbers also want to manipulate!actually 31,000 PASAND PR SUPPORTERS and about 10,000 umno bn supporters.

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written by DezMalaysia, January 06, 2009 11:44:38

Wah Seh! 30 000BN Supporters? Show us the picture please! Lakhanat punya MCA (thestar) paper! Jangan tipu lah !

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written by ahmadneil, January 06, 2009 11:44:40

VOTE PAS
UNDI PAS

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written by mikewang, January 06, 2009 11:44:43

Picked from Malaysiakini.

"[...] Meanwhile, a news media reported that the police estimated 20,000 PAS supporters and 4,000 BN supporters have gathered for the nomination.

However, The Star reported there were 30,000 BN supporters and 15,000 PAS supporters."

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written by ahmadneil, January 06, 2009 11:48:29

To KT voters,
You have seen what umno/BN leaders are like today.You can judge by their behaviour and if you vote for this kind of arrogant leaders,you will regret for the rest of your life.This is exactly how they will behave when they elected.Vote PAS !

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written by Rainbowseahorse, January 06, 2009 12:06:13

PAS supporters outnumbered BN supporters? That's strange and it tells me 2 things:
1) BN have less supporters in KT which means PAS is going to win.
2) BN is giving PAS a false sense of confidence while quietly rigging votes to ensure BN victory in KT.

So, which is it going to be?

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written by pinsysu, January 06, 2009 12:11:22

u want c pictures of 30,000 BN supporters? no sweat lah. 4,000 BN supporters as reported by malaysiakini copy & paste 8x ya

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written by Wudan, January 06, 2009 12:25:47

A police spokesman said about 30,000 Barisan Nasional supporters and 15,000 PAS supporters had gathered to begin their march to the nomination centre.
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Oi Abang polis! Jangan kuat goreng tahu. The Rakyat will find out and you will be made to look silly. ada 'pancut air' ka?

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written by Democrats, January 06, 2009 12:49:08

Police mathematic not strong.....i wonder if i can get away by paying just RM2 for my RM200 dollar summons, since they can't count. Star news paper not credible, exagerating the number..... Boycott Star.

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written by Badaksumbu, January 06, 2009 13:02:39

KT people know better, though all government controlled media try to portray BN is winning- let opposition shows the result of election again like Pematng Pauh! Good luck for democracy!

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