Pekan Umno chief Najib Abdul Razak has expressed confidence that the party's cooperation with PAS through its Muafakat Nasional pact could net over 90 percent of votes in the upcoming Chini by-election.

In an interview with Pahang Media, the former premier said this was as BN and PAS, which had contested separately during the last 14th general elections, in total garnered around 95 percent of votes cast for the state seat under Pekan parliamentary constituency.

In the last election, the late Abu Bakar Harun, representing Umno, garnered 10,027 votes and won by a 4,622 majority over PAS' Mohd Fadhil Noor Abdul Karim who received 5,405 votes.

"The PKR candidate received only about five percent of the...