THE PKR central leadership committee (MPP) will decide tomorrow what to do with some 300 rogue members, said party sources.

“The disciplinary committee has made its recommendations and the leadership will now discuss and decide during its meeting on Sunday,” an MPP leader told The Malaysian Insight.

He said a number of the leaders could expect to be “sacked”.

Such action, said the source, was necessary as the party geared up for a possibly snap election.

The source said it was important for PKR to remove these leaders to ensure there were no more defections post-elections.

“We don’t want them to continue sabotaging the party from within either,” said the source, a party leader.

“The last thing we need is for them to disrupt our preparations during a general election campaign. As it is, they are quitting one by one to agitate the party anyway.”

Two PKR assemblymen this month resigned back to back. They are known to be loyal to sacked deputy party president Mohamed Azmin Ali, who has been appointed to the Perikatan Nasional cabinet as senior minister in charge of international trade and industry.

Sementa assemblyman Dr Daroyah Alwi, who was the PKR women’s wing deputy chief, resigned from the party on June 13, followed by Seberang Jaya assemblyman Dr Afif Bahardin, who was a Penang exco, on June 24.

PKR has been cleaning up its membership roll following the February defections of Azmin, its former vice-president Zuraida Kamarudin and nine more MPs to the other side. Their departures, along with Bersatu’s from Pakatan Harapan, led to the ruling coalition’s collapse the same month.

All but one of the former PKR MPs were reported in March to have joined Bersatu to back Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in his coalition government with Umno, PAS, GPS and several MPs in Sabah.

Aside from Azmin and Zuraida, the MPs who left PKR were Saifuddin Abdullah (Indera Mahkota), Baru Bian (Selangau), Kamaruddin Jaafar (Bandar Tun Razak), Mansor Othman (Nibong Tebal), Rashid Hasnoon (Batu Pahat), Santhara Kumar (Segamat), Ali Biju (Saratok), Willie Mongin (Puncak Borneo) and Jonathan Yasin (Ranau).

Baru was the sole MP who did not join Bersatu. He has since retracted his support for Muhyiddin and stands as a PH-friendly independent lawmaker.

Last month PKR expelled 348 members and suspended 285 more.

Among the party leaders suspended were women’s wing chief Haniza Talha, then youth deputy chief Afif, MPP member Mohd Radzlan Jalaludin, and Sabah women chief Rahimah Majid.

Grassroots leaders who were sacked were youth vice-chief Mohd Nazree Mohd Yunus, women information chief Syarul Ema Abu Samah, Rembia assemblyman Muhammad Jailani Khamis, Batu Lintang assemblyman See Chee How, and Sarawak PKR secretary Vernon Albert Kedit.

PKR vice-president Tian Chua, formerly the Batu MP, was given a show-cause letter. – June 27, 2020.