Selangor to become a 'Super Smart State' if PN wins - Azmin

SHAH ALAM – Perikatan Nasional (PN) is determined to make Selangor a 'Super Smart State' if the coalition wins the people's mandate and succeeds in forming a state government in the state election cum Aug 12.

Selangor PN chairman Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali said among the initiatives to be implemented was to attract skilled and high-tech foreign investors and thus provide quality job opportunities for the youth of Selangor.

He believed the Selangor government today has failed to attract high-tech investors, while the existing investments were still intensifying foreign workers.

"If this continues, there is no way that these young people in Selangor will be able to create or be given the opportunity to get quality jobs and high skills.

"So among the proposals we are offering is to attract high quality and technological investment and then create 100,000 quality jobs. This offer can indeed be done because we have experience," he said.

He said this during the dialogue session after the Selangor PN manifesto launch by PN Chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at a hotel in Shah Alam on Friday night.

The former minister added that Selangor had recorded good performance last year when he was still helming the Investment, Trade and Industry Ministry.

He said during his time, he had brought Amazon Web Services (AWS) into Selangor despite not governed by PN. He said he still brought investments worth RM25 billion to the state.

Earlier, Muhyiddin said he could feel a "wind of change blowing strongly" in the state of Selangor and hopes it forms a strong and cohesive wave of the people's support for PN.