I will stand in Pandan in GE15, says Rafizi
PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli said by contesting in Pandan, he could campaign more effectively at the national level for PKR candidates.
GEORGE TOWN: PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli said he wants to stand in Pandan in the 15th general election (GE15), the seat which he first won in 2013 when he made his parliamentary debut.
He said he had made this clear to the party leadership which had yet to finalise the list of candidates for the election.
“I have made it clear that I want to defend Pandan, pending the party’s decision.
“This is because I can campaign more effectively at the national level for PKR candidates if I stand in Pandan where we have very good support and are quite established,” he told reporters in Penang.
The seat is currently held by Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
Rafizi served as Pandan MP for a term from 2013 to 2018 after beating MCA’s Lim Chin Yee by a majority of 26,729 votes.
He was ineligible to contest for re-election in GE14 due to his pending appeal against a 30-month jail sentence by the Shah Alam sessions court in February 2018 for leaking banking details belonging to the National Feedlot Corp and its chairman Salleh Ismail.
In 2018, Wan Azizah took over the seat and won by a majority of 52,543 votes against MCA’s Leong Kok Wee.
In November 2019, the Shah Alam High Court overturned the sessions court’s decision, saying the prosecution had failed to produce the original documents as required under Section 61 of the Evidence Act.
GEORGE TOWN: PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli said he wants to stand in Pandan in the 15th general election (GE15), the seat which he first won in 2013 when he made his parliamentary debut.
He said he had made this clear to the party leadership which had yet to finalise the list of candidates for the election.
“I have made it clear that I want to defend Pandan, pending the party’s decision.
“This is because I can campaign more effectively at the national level for PKR candidates if I stand in Pandan where we have very good support and are quite established,” he told reporters in Penang.
The seat is currently held by Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
Rafizi served as Pandan MP for a term from 2013 to 2018 after beating MCA’s Lim Chin Yee by a majority of 26,729 votes.
He was ineligible to contest for re-election in GE14 due to his pending appeal against a 30-month jail sentence by the Shah Alam sessions court in February 2018 for leaking banking details belonging to the National Feedlot Corp and its chairman Salleh Ismail.
In 2018, Wan Azizah took over the seat and won by a majority of 52,543 votes against MCA’s Leong Kok Wee.
In November 2019, the Shah Alam High Court overturned the sessions court’s decision, saying the prosecution had failed to produce the original documents as required under Section 61 of the Evidence Act.
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