PKR Youth vice-chief Nazree Yunus has confirmed that a separate meeting would be held between PKR members and leaders at the Renaissance Hotel in Kuala Lumpur over the coming weekend.
The meeting, linked to PKR deputy president Azmin Ali, would run concurrently with the party's annual delegates congress in Malacca.
"I have been informed that there is a meeting or programme involving party leaders (and members).
"I can confirm that the meeting will take place over two days - Saturday and Sunday," Nazree told Malaysiakini.
Declining to name who is organising the meeting, the PKR Youth leader said he expected Azmin and vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin to attend together with the party's lawmakers and leaders of its respective wings.
Nazree said the highlight of the event would be speeches by party leaders who would be "taking a few main positions”.
"I expect this (meeting in Kuala Lumpur) to be a manifestation of the yearning of senior party leaders and members to voice out on issues.
"This is a democratic country. It is up (to the members) to join any programme," he added.
Nazree claimed that only about 2,000 delegates of the party's 600,000 members would be attending the congress in Malacca.
"I do not discount the possibility that some delegates who registered (for the congress) might want to participate in other (party) programmes.
"They can do so on their own volition," he said.
On whether this meeting could be considered a "parallel congress" or "PKR congress 2.0", Nazree said it was up to the media to attach labels to the meeting.
The official PKR congress would kick off tomorrow night at the Malacca International Trade Centre with the officiation ceremony of the women's wing delegates meeting.
Azmin is scheduled to officiate this meeting.
On Friday, the PKR Youth delegates meeting would commence in the morning and officiate by party adviser Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail in the afternoon.
A large number of elected national PKR Youth office bearers, including Nazree, had cried foul after the wing's leadership broke the tradition of having the deputy president officiate their annual delegates' meet.
However, PKR Youth office bearers aligned to its elected leader Akmal Nasir have claimed that they invited Wan Azizah because Azmin sat on the invitation for six weeks. - Mkini
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