{
  "id": 17336200,
  "title": "Perluas dengan parti lain, Zahid ulas CSA",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/perluas-dengan-parti-lain-zahid-ulas-csa",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-31T03:53:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2026/10/31/perluas-dengan-parti-lain-zahid-ulas-csa"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Vice Prime Minister Zahid Hamidi hopes to extend the Confidence and Cooperation Agreement (CSA) to other opposition parties, both within and outside the government. He expressed his support for the agreement, which he deemed a positive development in addressing public issues. \"In my view, what they are doing is a good step and has been carried out by the government when the Umno deputy leader was Prime Minister before,\" he told the media after accompanying BN candidate Ab Rauf Yusoh for the Tanjung Bidara seat nomination.\n\nPreviously, the government formalized the CSA with six Bersatu MPs headed by President Muhyiddin Yassin, besides Muar MP Muhamad Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman. Earlier, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim stated that the CSA signing aimed to strengthen national political stability and ensure smooth government administration and development agenda implementation, including the 2027 budget.\n\nZahid also addressed concerns that the MCA might boycott the Melaka PRN, which turned out to be untrue when the party agreed to contest four seats allocated to them. He emphasized that the BN would work hard to help MCA win all the mentioned seats, as well as strive to reduce the opposition's majority in previously contested areas. \"In this agreement, we will work hard to ensure that all the seats we contest result in a victory, or at least minimize the opposition's majority in the seats we previously lost,\" he said.\n\nAdditionally, Zahid suggested that if BN forms the state government again, Rauf would be proposed as the chief minister. MCA is contesting four DUN seats, namely Kelebang, Machap Jaya, Bandar Hilir, and Kota Laksamana.",
  "summary": "Timbalan perdana menteri berkata perjanjian itu perkembangan baik menangani permasalahan rakyat.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}