YOUTH GEOPOLITICS AND SUPPORT FOR BARISAN NASIONAL ON THE POST-GE-15 IN THE STATE OF KEDAH

Barisan Nasional (BN) is a strong party that has never lost since taking over the reins of the country's government despite facing a 'political tsunami' in GE-12. After six decades, the party was toppled in GE-14. This was due to its leadership being involved in racial politics, abuse of power, corruption, money politics and so on which violated moral ethics. However, in the 15th GE, BN still found it difficult to return to the way it was before, but it still received support from many parties after many felt that the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government was also unable to resolve the issues that arose. Youth geopolitics or the power of youth votes is seen to be able to influence voter support for political parties because they represent more than 60 percent of voters in an area and are the determinants of political party victory. Therefore, the objective of writing this article is to analyse youth political support for BN after GE-15 in the state of Kedah. Based on a questionnaire distributed in five parliaments in the state to analyse the factors that cause youth to still loyally support BN and the party's struggle to face the upcoming GE and the fight made by BN ahead of the upcoming GE.