BN chairperson Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the coalition has no plans to extend its cooperation with Perikatan Nasional to the 16th general election, though he left open the possibility of talks.

While PN leaders have openly eyed a federal-level partnership with BN in GE16, Zahid today said, “What we have gone through, particularly in Negri Sembilan and Malacca, is a political understanding.

“We have never planned to go beyond that, but if the time comes and the situation calls for it, we will sit down together,” the New Straits Times quoted him as saying after attending the People’s Progressive Party’s Deepavali open house in Kuala Lumpur.

BN and PN secured a two-thirds majority in both state elections, winning 24 of 28 seats in Malacca yesterday and 25 of 36 in Negeri Sembilan.