KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 -- Opposition parties should not obsess with chasing new voters between 18 and 21 as this strategy is unlikely to pay off, PKR's Subang MP Wong Chen has warned.

Despite the so-called Undi18 constitutional amendment that added this group to the country's voters, Wong said the recent Johor election showed low turnout for the voter streams catering to this category of first-time voters.

"We (PKR) will look at the youth votes realistically as the turnout being slightly lower than middle aged voters.

"So, what you want to do is get the middle-aged voters to come out more, so you go to core issues, and that's a big challenge really," Wong told Malay Mail during an interview.

Wong explained that past experience has shown...