BERSATU leader Azmin Ali said he was ready to contest Anwar Ibrahim or any of his family members for the Gombak parliamentary seat at the next general election.

While the Bersatu supreme council member did not mention any names, it was believed he was referring to Pandan lawmaker Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar.

Anwar had earlier said that he was prepared to face the traitors who had deserted PKR and Pakatan Harapan to join the Perikatan Nasional government during the Sheraton Move.

Azmin, on the other hand, reminded the public of events which he alleged were Anwar’s own acts of betrayal towards voters, such as the failed “Kajang Move” and the Port Dickson by-election.

The Kajang Move was to pave the way for Anwar to contest the Kajang state seat and become Selangor menteri besar, while the Port Dickson by-election was called to pave the way for the opposition leader to return to parliament after receiving a royal pardon.

“People of Malaysia, please remember. History cannot be erased,” Azmin was quoted as saying by the Malay Mail at an event to launch Bersatu’s division meetings and the Selangor election machinery today.

The MPs who deserted PKR and joined Bersatu after the Sheraton Move were Azmin (Gombak), Zuraida Kamaruddin (Ampang), Saifuddin Abdullah (Indera Mahkota), Kamaruddin Jaffar (Bandar Tun Razak), Mansor Othman (Nibong Tebal), Rashid Hasnon (Batu Pahat), Edmund Santhara Kumar (Segamat), Ali Biju (Saratok), Willie Mongin (Puncak Borneo) and Jonathan Yasin (Ranau).

Meanwhile, PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli at an event in Penang said that he wanted to contest in the Pandan parliamentary seat in the next polls, which he had won in 2013.

He did not defend the seat in the 2018 general election as he was appealing a 30-month jail sentence for leaking the details of National Feedlot Corp’s finances.

“I have made it clear that I want to defend Pandan, pending the party’s decision.

“This is because I can campaign more effectively at the national level for PKR candidates if I stand in Pandan, where we have very good support and are quite established,” he was quoted as saying by Free Malaysia Today.

Wan Azizah won the seat with a thumping 52,543 majority vote in the last election. – October 2, 2022.