The former Pandan MP said that Invoke’s research had led him to conclude that PKR would win in a three-corned fight even though Azmin Ali, the party’s deputy president, wanted to avoid competing with PAS and sought cooperation with the Islamist party.

“But we managed to convince the leadership to go into three-cornered fights, even as Azmin, Tian Chua and Zuraida wanted to work with PAS,” he said in a statement, alluding to the PKR vice-president and outgoing PKR Wanita Chief Zuraida Kamaruddin.

Rafizi, who is gunning for the post of deputy president in the coming PKR elections said this when defending his use of telephone surveys in his campaign.

He said no leader from PKR or Pakatan Harapan had accused Invoke of breaking the law in conducting the survey prior to the last general election. The only ones who did so, he added, were from Umno.

Rafizi revealed that the only information Invoke obtained from the list of PKR members were their MyKad numbers which were cross-referenced with Invoke’s database.

His competition in the PKR election, he said, also had a copy of the membership list with the same details.

“We only needed to call the voters.”

It was reported that Selangor PKR communications chief Nor Hizwan Ahmad had claimed that a phone survey on the party elections had violated the Personal Data Protection Act 2016, which prevents the use of personal information without consent.