This is better than requesting for a separate session with the president, amid reports that several leaders have been consistently absent from these meetings, Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak added.
He said the Central Leadership Council (MPP) meetings were the best platform to discuss party matters and iron out problems.
“We can discuss everything in the open,” he said when contacted.
Farhash said this in response to Zuraida’s claim earlier today that Anwar had yet to entertain multiple letters sent to him to meet with certain Central Leadership Council members “for reconciliation”.
Farhash said the local government and housing minister would be lying if she said she did not have access to Anwar.
He also said there was no need for separate meetings. Such MPP meets, he said, had been scheduled to be held at the end of every month.
“We do not want camps in the party. So MPP members should attend these meetings. I too am unsure as to why she made such a statement as it gave the impression that there are factions in the party.”
Farhash also said that he had been informed that the issue of the letters was raised at the meeting last week and Anwar had stated the MPP meetings were the best platform to strengthen the party.
On Saturday, Anwar denied there was a split or the existence of two camps in PKR following deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali’s absence from several PKR leadership meetings prior to this.
Anwar said Azmin had already submitted the reasons for most of his absences and the party, therefore, need not take any action against him.
Meanwhile, the PKR political bureau, which met today, has told Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari to provide a full briefing regarding the state government’s proposed unilateral religious conversion bill at the Pakatan Harapan presidential council meeting on Friday.
PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil said Amirudin today briefed the meeting regarding the proposed amendment to the Islamic Administration Enactment.
In a landmark judgment last year, the Federal Court declared that the consent of both parents is needed for the conversion of minors, ruling that the word “parent” in the Federal Constitution means both father and mother.
The Selangor amendment seeks to change this to “mother or father”.