PKR will field a heavyweight former senior civil servant for one of the state seats it intends to contest in Perak - and he will then be Pakatan Harapan’s menteri besar candidate.

Malaysiakini learned that Zainal Azman Abu Seman, who served as the deputy director-general of the Public Service Department (JPA), will contest in Kuala Sepetang.

The Malay-majority rural area was won by PKR in the 2008 and 2013 general elections, but the seat was lost to Umno in the 2018 election...