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2022 People's Justice Party leadership election

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2022 People's Justice Party leadership election

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Candidate Anwar Ibrahim
Party PKR
Popular vote Won Uncontested
Percentage 100%

President of PKR before election

Anwar Ibrahim

President of PKR after election

Anwar Ibrahim

A leadership election was held by the People's Justice Party (PKR) in Malaysia from April to July 2022 to elect new leadership on the central level. [1] [2]

For the party presidency, it was highly unlikely for incumbent president Anwar Ibrahim to face any potential opponents and being defeated and he would hence remain as the party president given to his prominent and dominant position in the party and politics following the departure of former deputy president Azmin Ali, his followers and a number of founding members aligned to Azmin whom they were embroiled in splits and fallouts with Anwar and eventually resulted in the 2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis which overthrew the democratically elected Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration. 2018 PKR election was repeated with Anwar remaining as the party president after he was elected by walkover as he was the sole candidate for the party presidency in the election. [3]

For the party deputy presidency, it was expected to see a heated contest and fight between Rafizi Ramli, former candidate and loser to Azmin in 2018 and the incumbent vice-president, who announced his return to active politics on 15 March 2022, and Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, also a former candidate and loser to Azmin in 2014, the loyalist to Anwar and the incumbent secretary-general. Subsequently, on 29 May 2022, Rafizi defeated Saifuddin with an unexpected landslide victory in the unofficial results revealed. Saifuddin then conceded defeat and congratulated Rafizi on winning the PKR deputy presidency at night on the same day. [4] On 4 July 2022, the results of the forensic audit of the unofficial results were revealed with a major change of the overturn of the victory in the contest for the position of Women Chief with initial winner Rodziah Ismail being edged out extremely narrowly by her opponent Fadhlina Sidek by a majority of mere 32 votes. Fadhlina was then declared the new Women Chief-elect. The rest of the results remained almost the same as the initial ones and no other major changes took place. The audit was done following complaints and allegations of the lack of freedom, fairness and transparency by some of the candidates. [5]

Timeline

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Dates Events
11 April 2022 Nominations opened
13 April 2022 List of initial candidates revealed
14–15 April 2022 Declines of nominations
16 April 2022 Results of declines revealed
17–19 April 2022 Appeals for results
20 April 2022 List of final candidates revealed
21 April 2022 Deadline for virtual voters to update their mobile applications of voting
13–22 May 2022 Physical voting
17 May 2022 Virtual voting for overseas members
18–20 May 2022 Virtual voting
29 May 2022 Unofficial results revealed
4 July 2022 [6] Results of the forensic audit of the unofficial results revealed
15 July 2022 Youth National Congress
16 July 2022 Women National Congress
17 July 2022 [7] Central National Congress and official results revealed

Nominations & Results

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President

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Candidate Other positions Votes of members Status
Anwar Ibrahim Leader of the Opposition, Chairman of Pakatan Harapan, MP for Port Dickson Won Uncontested (100%) Elected

Deputy President

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Candidates Other positions Votes of members Status
Rafizi Ramli None 59,678 (58.12%) Elected
Saifuddin Nasution Ismail MP for Kulim-Bandar Baharu, MLA for Pantai Jerejak, Secretary-General of Pakatan Harapan 43,010 (41.88%) Defeated

Vice Presidents

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Candidate Other positions Votes of members Status
Amirudin Shari Menteri Besar of Selangor, MLA for Sungai Tua 46,075 Elected
Chang Lih Kang MP for Tanjong Malim 34,939
Nik Nazmi MP for Setiawangsa 34,496
Aminuddin Harun Menteri Besar of Negeri Sembilan, MLA for Sikamat 33,230
G. Manivannan None 29,117 Defeated
Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak 27,015
Fahmi Fadzil MP for Lembah Pantai 24,351
Fuziah Salleh MP for Kuantan 22,534
Chan Ming Kai MP for Alor Setar 22,344
Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid MP for Kapar 20,761
Gunaraj George MLA for Sentosa 20,164
Shamsul Iskandar Md. Akin MP for Hang Tuah Jaya 16,269
S. Thiban None 15,155
M. A. Tinagaran 11,086
Azan Ismail 5,699
R. Summugam MLA for Bukit Selambau 5,313
Mustaffa Kamil Ayub None 5,620

Women Chief

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Candidates Other positions Votes of members Status
Fadhlina Sidek Senator For Dewan Negara 18,923 Elected
Rodziah Ismail MLA For Batu Tiga 18,891 Defeated

Deputy Women Chief

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Candidates Other positions Votes of members Status
Juwairiya Zulkifli MLA For Bukit Melawati 15,693 Elected
Napsiah Khamis None 12,043 Defeated
Faizah Arifin 9,763

Youth Chief (AMK)

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Candidates Other positions Votes of members Status
Adam Adli None 12,301 Elected
Fahmi Zainol MBSP City Council Councillor 9,850 Defeated

Deputy Youth Chief

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Candidates Other positions Votes of members Status
Kamil Munim None 11,526 Elected
Chua Wei Kiat MLA For Rawang 10,389 Defeated

Central Leadership Council (MPP)

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Candidates Other positions Votes of members Status
Maszlee Malik MP For Simpang Renggam 1091 Elected
Akmal Nasir MP For Johor Bahru 956
Romli Ishak None 878
Fahmi Zainol MBSP City Council Councillor 817
Yahya Sahri None 804
Nor Azrina Surip MP For Merbok 797
Lee Chean Chung MLA For Semambu 788
Siti Aishah Shaik Ismail None 783
Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh MP For Ledang 739
Gerald Hans Isaac None 720
Ooi Tze Min MLA For Bakar Arang 703
Wong Chen MP For Subang 697
Raiyan Abdul Rahim None 697
Tan Kar Hing MLA For Simpang Pulai 648
Zahir Hassan None 642
David Cheong Kian Young 622
Hey Loy Sian MLA For Kajang 619
Amidi Abdul Manan None 617
Elizabeth Wong Keat Ping MLA For Bukit Lanjan 598
Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik MP For Balik Pulau 594

References

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  1. ^ "PKR polls: Nomination for central leadership, AMK, women councils postponed to May 28". The Star. 8 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Nominations for PKR divisional polls kick off Friday (April 8)". The Star. 8 April 2022.
  3. ^ "Anwar remains unopposed as PKR president". The Star. 12 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Saifuddin concedes, congratulates Rafizi on win". The Star. 29 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Fadhlina becomes PKR Wanita chief after forensic audit". Free Malaysia Today. 4 July 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  6. ^ "PKR polls audit: Rafizi still deputy president, Rodziah Ismail no longer Women wing's chief". The Star. 4 July 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
  7. ^ "PKR postpones congress to July 15, will audit party polls results". The Star. 10 June 2022.