Nurul Izzah beats Rafizi for PKR’s No 2 post

Nurul Izzah beats Rafizi for PKR’s No 2 post

Nurul Izzah Anwar takes over the post from Rafizi Ramli.

Nurul Izzah Anwar was seen as a clear favourite to win the PKR deputy presidency after more than 200 of the 222 party divisions declared their support for her.
JOHOR BAHRU:
Former Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar has been elected as the new PKR deputy president, defeating Rafizi Ramli with a total of 9,803 votes.

The number of votes garnered by those who were defeated in the polls was not revealed.

Rafizi and Nurul Izzah were engaged in a straight fight for the deputy presidency – a position Rafizi won in the 2022 party elections. Nurul Izzah, who did not contest then, was subsequently appointed as a party vice-president.

The daughter of party president Anwar Ibrahim, Nurul Izzah was widely seen as the frontrunner, with over 200 of PKR’s 222 divisions expressing their support for her ahead of the election.

Rafizi previously said that he would resign as economy minister if he lost the post to Nurul Izzah.

A total of 32,030 delegates were eligible to vote in the PKR central leadership elections.

Nurul Izzah’s victory comes hours after FMT quoted a source who said that she had taken the lead in the race.

Her win also confirms a claim by an aide to Rafizi that the Pandan MP had lost.

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