KUALA LUMPUR: The remaining vacant posts in PKR’s top leadership will be announced after party president Anwar Ibrahim consults the respective state leaders.
PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said the party’s constitution allows the president to appoint five central leadership council members, two vice-presidents, a secretary-general, an information chief, a treasurer and 14 state chairmen.
“I spoke to Anwar before he left for Turkey. He said he needs time to decide,” Saifuddin said at the Parliament lobby today.
“He has started with Penang and will continue with other states.
“All this will take some time as he needs to take everything into consideration to ensure party stability in the long run.”
On the Rantau by-election, Saifuddin said the party had yet to discuss whether Dr Streram Sinnasamy would be PKR’s candidate.
He said PKR was supposed to have its political bureau meeting today but it had to be cancelled as most of the party’s top leaders were not available.
“Datuk Seri Anwar is in Turkey. Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail is in Qatar. Our main leaders are not in the country, so we didn’t hold the meeting.”
On Nov 21, it was reported that Negeri Sembilan PKR had proposed three names, including that of Streram, as PKR’s candidate for the by-election.
Streram was prevented from submitting his nomination papers to contest in the 14th general election on May 9. This led to Barisan Nasional’s candidate, former Negeri Sembilan menteri besar Mohamad Hasan, winning the seat uncontested.
Streram then filed a petition on May 23 to nullify the Election Commission’s decision in declaring Mohamad the winner of the Rantau state seat.
On Nov 16, the Election Court allowed the petition by Streram for a fresh election to be held for the Rantau state seat.
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