I told Shafie PKR deserves its share of seats, says Anwar

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 6 Sep 2020 11:57AM · 4 Comments

A picture uploaded onto Anwar Ibrahim's Facebook page showing the PKR president and other party leaders with Parti Warisan Sabah counterpart Shafie Apdal in Kota Kinabalu today. – September 6, 2020.

PKR wants a fair share of seats to contest in the Sabah state elections, said party president Anwar Ibrahim.

He said he had expressed this to Parti Warisan Sabah president and Sabah Chief Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal at a meeting in Kota Kinabalu this morning.

“In the meeting, we discussed seat allocations for the coming state elections.

“I expressed PKR’s hope as an ally (to Warisan) to be given fair and equal space as we do have our history in Sabah,” he said in a Facebook post.

He said it was also agreed that all contesting candidates from their pact would contest as a single team to retain their power in the state.

Also present at the meeting were Sabah PKR chief Christina Liew and her deputy Mustafa Sakmud, former PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and party secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution.

Anwar is in Sabah to launch the party’s election machinery, which took place yesterday.

Talk has been rife that PKR is planning to go at it alone in the state polls while Warisan, Amanah, DAP as well as candidates backed by Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s new party Pejuang have formed a pact to face Perikatan Nasional and Umno.

The peninsula-based PKR was not represented when Shafie launched Warisan’s machinery yesterday, which was attended by its other allies.

Shafie said he would announce Warisan’s candidates on Thursday.

The nomination for the state polls will be held on September 12 while polling is set for September 26.

Last month, Anwar had said PKR was ready to use its own symbol for the elections instead of a common symbol for all allied parties, while Amanah had been pushing for the use of its own symbol to make it easier for voters to vote in the immediate past ruling party. – September 6, 2020.

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  • Why is DAP and Amanah siding with Mahathir? DAP has collected almost 4 million in public money, they better explain to their supporters why they are supporting Mahathir.

    Posted 5 years ago by Elyse Gim · Reply

    • Why is PKR helping Moo to split votes?

      Posted 5 years ago by Ranvir singh · Reply

  • "Last month, Anwar had said PKR was ready to use its own symbol for the elections instead of a common symbol for all allied parties

    Talk has been rife that PKR is planning to go at it alone in the state polls"

    He's doing Moo's dirty work.

    The "Leader of the Opposition" who does nothing but help the current PN govt.

    Utterly useless.

    Posted 5 years ago by Ranvir singh · Reply

  • Time for PKR to stand out by itself as it has a reformist agenda for New Malaysia. PKR has 222 branches and had been around since 20 years ago. Why Unmo, Warisan, GPS, and newest block Bersatu/Perjuang should lead? Tose are OLD junks from Unmo DNA which is more of the same. DSAI and PKR must strike out as the Dominant Political Party.

    Posted 5 years ago by Fabian Lim · Reply