PKR secretary-general Datuk Dr Fuziah Salleh has apparently come under fire for unveiling that the party is mulling legal action against its former deputy president Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli and ex-vice-president Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad for part hopping breaches that run afoul of the party’s constitution.
The Domestic Trade and Costs of Living Deputy Minister claimed that PKR has time-stamped evidence that the duo who announced having taken over the Malaysian United Party a.k.a. Parti Bersama Malaysia on Sunday (May 17) had already joined BERSAMA the day before, thereby violating their 2022 election bond with PKR.
The election bond requires candidates of the core Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition member to remain with the party until the end of the term.
When unveiling their plans to jump ship to BERSAMA, Rafizi and Nik Nazmi said they would submit their resignations as MPs first prior to quitting PKR and join BERSAMA.
Following this, both the former economy minister and natural resources and environmental sustainability minister have submitted a letter to Dewan Rakyat Tan Sri Johari Abdul yesterday (May 18) to inform him of their resignation as MPs for Pandan and Setiawangsa respectively.
“Our service centre will operate as usual to continue providing assistance and services to voters,” they penned in a joint statement.
“We’ll also be contesting again in the Pandan and Setiawangsa parliamentary constituencies on the BERSAMA platform in the upcoming election.”
Rafizi and Nik Nazmi will next step down from PKR today (May 19), thus ending their 23-year and two decades stint with the party respectively.
Hostile reaction
Civil and criminal lawyer Faizal Rahman chided Fuziah who is touted as “Makcik Lynas” for the apparent abandoning of her decade-long “Stop Lynas Rare Earth Refinery” campaign in Kuantan after PH assumed power in 2022 as a portrayal of “how hasty and greedy PKR is to get the RM10 mil bond money”.
“Beautiful and orderly (step-by-step) is the OFFICIAL action they’ve taken with the exact date,” snubbed the former PKR member who has since signed up with BERSAMA.
“This means the OFFICIAL action (official letter) will take effect ONLY after the OFFICIAL LETTER is issued.”
Madani critic Datuk Eric See-To also mocked Fuziah who was a three-term Kuantan MP prior to losing her seat to PAS in the 15th General Election (GE15) for being ungrateful given how “Rafizi and Nik Nazmi have been manipulated by (PKR president Datuk Seri) Anwar (Ibrahim) for over 10 years to help him become PM”.
Both won in their parliamentary contests which ultimately contributed to Anwar becoming PMX.
You also got the opportunity to be appointed as Deputy Minister because Anwar became PMX even though you yourself lost the election.
More importantly, both of them didn’t run away with seats that are deemed among the safest in the party. In fact, they were gentlemen enough to resign as MPs.
But you still have a bad heart by wanting to demand that they pay RM10 mil each to the party. Who wants to join or support a party that is so unkind and bad-hearted to this level?”
In a span of 24 hours, Rafizi claimed that around 8,000 new members have registered with BERSAMA which RM20 membership fee “has to be the cheapest lifetime membership of a political party in Malaysia. 
”, according to renowned political analyst Prof James Chin.
- focus malaysia
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