With the Kuala Lumpur High Court set to hear Perikatan Nasional’s legal challenge this morning, the deregistered coalition faces a race against time to salvage its electoral plans less than two weeks before the Malacca state election.

While PN can pursue further legal avenues against the Registrar of Societies’ (ROS) decision, lawyers and political analysts say its component parties should not wait for the courts to settle the matter before preparing for the Nov 14 polls.

With nomination day set for Oct 31, the immediate question is whether PAS and its partners can agree on an alternative electoral arrangement, including which party logo to use, while pursuing legal remedies that may not yield a timely reprieve.