AND then there were five. Now that Gerakan has joined the Perikatan Nasional coalition, it has five members: Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia, PAS, Sabah STAR and Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP). On Thursday, in a ceremony with Gerakan president Datuk Dr Dominic Lau, Perikatan chairman and Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin formally accept the party as a coalition member. The last poll the party contested was the Tanjung Piai by-election in Johor in November 2019, where it stood as a third force. It received 1,707 votes while Bersatu/Pakatan Harapan garnered 10,380 votes and MCA/Barisan Nasional won by a landslide of 25,466 votes.