KUALA LUMPUR, Dec. 1 -- Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Barisan Nasional's (BN) collaboration in the national unity government could be tested in the six state elections next year, as they must choose between straight fights with Perikatan Nasional (PN) and engaging in free-for-alls.

With the two now allied in the federal government, the latter approach could have repercussions to the partnership that allowed PH chairman Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to become prime minister ahead of PN's Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

University of Malaya Centre for Democracy and Elections (UMcedel) research fellow Awang Azman Awang Pawi said PH and BN should carry out seat negotiations over the state elections in Selangor, Penang, Negri Sembilan, Kedah, Kelantan and T...