PKR denies claims of major exodus of members

 Its secretary-general Fuziah Salleh says less than 1,000 PKR members have left the party since Rafizi Ramli's departure to Parti Bersama Malaysia.

PKR secretary-general Fuziah Salleh said there has not been a significant spike in resignations among party members.

PETALING JAYA:

PKR secretary-general Fuziah Salleh has dismissed claims circulating on social media that thousands of party members have left to join Rafizi Ramli’s new platform, Parti Bersama Malaysia.

“As of now, there is no noticeable exodus of members leaving PKR to join Bersama,” she told FMT.

Fuziah said the party’s online membership management platform has not recorded any significant spike in resignations since Rafizi announced his departure to Bersama on May 16.

“Our Adil application, the online platform where members apply to leave the party, did not register numbers that are significant. Only less than a thousand left since (May 16),” she said.

Former PKR leaders Rafizi and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad resigned as MPs for Pandan and Setiawangsa, respectively, before formally taking over Bersama about two weeks ago.

This has been followed by the departure of a slew of PKR figures.

Earlier, PKR’s Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Karim said the party was “losing a lot of blood”, in reference to various individuals announcing their departure from PKR to join Bersama.

Hassan expressed hope that PKR, founded by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, would intervene and survive this political turbulence ahead of the next general election. - FMT