The Umno candidate for the Chini by-election will be announced at 2.30pm, Barisan Nasional secretary-general Tan Sri Annuar Musa told reporters on Thursday (June 18).

The seat fell vacant after the incumbent, Datuk Seri Abu Bakar Harun, 60, from Barisan, died of a heart attack on May 6.

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