PETALING JAYA: PKR has insisted that it does not want to have anything to do with Azmin Ali, after its former deputy president was rumoured to have met party representatives last week.
“The central leadership council has decided that PKR will not discuss or cooperate with Azmin Ali, who is considered by PKR members, supporters and the general public as one of the main reasons behind the treacherous Sheraton Move,” said PKR communications chief Fahmi Fadzil in a statement.
Quoting sources within the party, Malaysiakini had reported that Azmin, the international trade and industry minister, met two PKR representatives last Wednesday.
The meeting was allegedly about the allegiance of MPs loyal to Azmin, with the Gombak MP purportedly “trying to buy some sort of insurance” for his political survival.
Azmin claimed he could not remember who he met when asked to confirm the meeting.
“I meet with many people, so I don’t remember who I have met,” he said in another report by Malaysia Gazette yesterday.
Dismissing speculation that he would be returning to PKR, he also claimed he could not remember whether he was at Sheraton Hotel in Petaling Jaya – the venue of the alleged meeting – when asked by reporters.
The former Selangor menteri besar was among the 11 PKR MPs who shifted their allegiance to Bersatu in February 2020 in what has come to be known as the Sheraton Move.
It saw the fall of the Pakatan Harapan government after just 22 months of power and the rise of the Perikatan Nasional administration led by Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin.
On June 17, Azmin sought to quell rumours that he would leave Bersatu, saying that the party’s ideals and principles reflect his “very identity”. - FMT
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