Johor Polls: Eight Years Of Casework, One Election To Prove It Matters For DAP’s Johor Jaya Candidate

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Lee Wern Yiing was 22 when she watched DAP’s state assemblywoman for Johor Jaya Liow Cai Tung campaign in the 2018 general election.

She was in the crowd, and by the time the night was over, she had decided to come home.

She had been studying and working in Singapore.

Lee returned to Johor and joined Liow’s team — who by now has held Johor Jaya for three consecutive terms — as a special officer.

That was eight years ago.

On Saturday (20 June), the 30-year-old announced she would contest Johor Jaya as Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) candidate in the upcoming Johor state election.

Politics Is Not Just Slogans

The announcement was made across social media in two languages, with campaign materials in Malay and Chinese circulating online.

In her Facebook post, Lee said she wanted to bring “the voice of the young, the grievances of residents, and the hopes of the people” to the state assembly.

In a longer Chinese-language statement, she was more specific about what those eight years looked like on the ground — an elderly woman asking her to help navigate government paperwork, families separated during the pandemic, a steady accumulation of resident complaints that she said taught her what it meant to be trusted with people’s problems.

“Politics is not just slogans,” she wrote.

There are people willing to listen, to commit, to stand up and solve problems.

@johor_circle 【政治这个圈】人物访问：李汶颖 “改革不可能一夜之间完成，但确实有一点一点在进步。” 30岁的李汶颖（30岁），从2014年国会议员办公室实习的学生，2018年起便是原任州议员廖彩彤的得力助手，如今更是民主行动党的柔佛社青团团长。 她强调，投身政治并非一时兴起，而是希望通过制度和政策改革帮助人民，改善他们的生活。而团结政府的改革进程已逐步取得进展。 她有感马来西亚已经迈入老龄化社会，柔佛也面对着年轻人才外流的挑战。 “只有通过制度改革，才能真正改变一些事情。” ——————— 另外，根据最新选民册数据，柔佛合格选民有272万7926人，其中26.4%为18岁至30岁的年轻选民。 汶颖认为，这批年轻选民将在国家未来发展中扮演关键角色，因此鼓励年轻人积极参与民主进程。 “年轻人手中的每一票，都对国家未来的发展非常重要，希望大家能够踊跃出来投票。” #柔佛圈 #李汶颖 #年轻选民 #柔佛州选 #投票 ♬ 原聲 – 柔佛圈

The Wider Picture

Lee holds a Bachelor of Political Science with Honours from Open University Malaysia and a Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Kaplan Education Singapore.

She currently serves as the Johor chapter head of DAPSY, the DAP youth wing.

She is, by her own account, not a newcomer to Johor Jaya; she has been handling its casework since before the last two election cycles.

The seat is hers to win or lose; the question the campaign has not yet answered is whether eight years of service translates into eight years of trust — or whether voters see a candidate who has been waiting in line.

Besides Lee, Nor Zulaila Abd Ghani, who is the private secretary to Deputy Finance Minister Liew Chin Tong, was also announced as a DAP candidate in Johor, contesting the Tiram seat.

Additionally, first-time candidate Mohamad Shafwan Ani is set to contest the Bukit Permai seat, while Wong Bor Yang, the incumbent in Senai, is seeking another term.

The Johor state election is scheduled for 11 July, with the nomination day set for 27 June, and early voting on 7 July.

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Johor Polls: Eight Years Of Casework, One Election To Prove It Matters For DAP’s Johor Jaya Candidate
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