“I see the election of the new leadership as a positive one, with a clear message about the need for a new spurt to bring positive change.

“As a people-based party, there is a need to accommodate all strengths. We have not gone astray from this principle,” he said in a video on his Facebook page.

Anwar said PKR was daring enough to conduct a forensic audit of its party elections, unlike other parties.

He said the election committee was also taking complaints about the polls seriously, even gripes that were “unreasonable”.

He said PKR had told the firm conducting the audit on the party polls to step up its work, adding that it had been given until June 20 to complete its report so the party could move on with its congress on July 15.

“When talking about transparency and integrity, we take lessons from other parties’ deceptions and are not afraid to be audited,” he said.

The PKR national congress has been postponed to July 15 to 17, pending the results of the forensic audit. It was initially scheduled to be held from June 24 to 26.

The audit was initiated following multiple claims of “missing” votes and disputes over the results for various party posts.