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Machap Baru: PKR's best hope for a debut in Malacca state politics
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GE14 | In the rural heartland of Malacca, Malay villages dot the landscape with a sprinkle of Chinese and Indian settlements.

Since independence, the opposition has never won in the rural heartland and its small influence through the decades have been confined to the urban centres.

But that may soon change with PKR's Ginie Lim (above) leading the charge for Machap Jaya, a constituency that apart from some small towns and Felda settlements, is covered by vast rubber and oil palm plantations.

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