{
  "id": 17611705,
  "title": "Calls to ‘vote for your own kind’ will deepen divide, says Karim",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/calls-to-vote-for-your-own-kind-will-deepen-divide-says-karim-17611705",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-01T13:08:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/11/01/calls-to-vote-for-your-own-kind-will-deepen-divide-says-karim"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Sarawakian Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, PBB information chief, warned that urging voters to support candidates based on their ethnicity could further isolate communities. In an interview, Hamzah highlighted that unity among Sarawak's diverse population, rather than religious or racial divisions, is what truly matters. He criticized political parties' attempts to exploit identity politics, likening them to the tactics used by Pakatan Harapan that reportedly weakened their position in the Negeri Sembilan election. Hamzah's call for unity echoes the concerns raised by Ilham Centre, which predicted BN and Perikatan Nasional would garner more Malay support in Negeri Sembilan due to the heavy use of identity-based messaging.",
  "summary": "The PBB information chief says peninsula parties representing the Malay and Chinese communities have fuelled an increasingly fragmented society.",
  "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."
}