Fauzi tanding Parlimen Indera Mahkota, Murnie Hidayah di Paya Besar...

Anwar Ibrahim malam tadi mengumumkan Pengerusi Perhubungan KEADILAN Pahang, Datuk Fauzi Abdul Rahman sebagai calon Parlimen Indera Mahkota pada PRU 13.

Pengumuman itu dibuat Ketua Umum KEADILAN itu pada ceramah di Balok Makmor sempena program Jelajah Merdeka Rakyat ke Pahang.

Turut bersama-sama Fauzi di pentas ketika pengumuman dibuat ialah Azan Ismail, penyandang kerusi Parlimen Indera Mahkota dan Fuziah Salleh yang mempertahan kerusi Parlimen Kuantan.

Fauzi adalah bekas Timbalan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri (JPM) dan pernah menjadi Setiausaha Parlimen Kementerian Penerangan dan Kementerian Tanah dan Pembangunan Koperasi.

 
Beliau keluar Umno pada 23 Julai 2008 sebelum mengiystihar menyertai KEADILAN di pejabat KEADILAN Petaling Jaya.

Pada ceramah perdana di Taman Mahkota Aman pula, peguam muda, Murnie Hidayah Anuar diumum bertanding kerusi Parlimen Paya Besar.

“Saya ambil kesempatan ini untuk umumkan, Paya Besar calon kerusi Parlimen dari KEADILAN. Di Paya Besar, kita tonjolkan orang yang ada kebolehan, rekod baik, layak dan berani.

“Calon ini seorang tokoh muda, profesional yang punya kelayakan tapi ada akar umbi kepada perjuangan rakyat,” katanya sebelum mengumumkan Murnie yang kemudian naik ke pentas.

Kata Anwar, pemilihan Murnie dibuat selepas perbincangan dengan pelbagai peringkat parti.-keadilandaily

 

Pahang PKR chief Fauzi to contest Indera Mahkota

Pahang PKR chief Fauzi Abdul Rahman has been announced as party candidate for the Indera Mahkota parliamentary seat in the upcoming 13th general election.

PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim said Fauzi would be replacing incumbent MP Azan Ismail, who would be contesting in Terengganu.
"Fauzi (right) is an old friend and we decided he should contest in Indera Mahkota," he told a ceramah in Balok Makmur, near Kuantan, last night.

In the 2008 general election, PKR won the seat when Azan defeated Salamon Ali Rizal Abdul Rahman of BN with a majority of 1,027 votes.

Fauzi had served as parliamentary secretary to the Information Ministry from October 1990 to May 1995. He was then parliamentary secretary to the Land and Cooperative Development Ministry from 1995 to 1997.

From 1997-1999, he was deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Department and was Kuantan Umno chief. On July 23, 2008, Fauzi resigned from Umno and joined PKR.

Fuziah to defend Kuantan

Meanwhile, PKR vice-president Fuziah Salleh will be defending her Kuantan parliamentary seat.

"We have decided that Fuziah (far left) will get to defend the Kuantan seat," Anwar told another rally in Kampung Sungai Isap 2, Kuantan.

At 2008 general election, Fuziah beat MCA candidate Fu Ah Kiow with a majority of 1,826 votes.

Fuziah garnered 18,398 votes, while Fu bagged 16,572 votes.

In the 2008 general election, BN lost two of the 14 parliamentary seats in Pahang, namely Indera Mahkota and Kuantan. - Bernama

Divisions back Wan Azizah to contest in S’gor...

A division chief says the arrival of the PKR chief in Selangor will unite the party in the face of a strong BN challenge. Selangor PKR grassroots leaders have responded positively to party president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail’s intention of contesting a state seat here, with six PKR division chiefs expected to hold their own separate press conferences in the near future in support of her.

A source told FMT today the divisions that support Wan Azizah’s candidacy in Selangor are Klang, Kapar, Kuala Langat, Hulu Langat, Hulu Selangor and Sungai Besar divisions.

The Klang division is expected to call for a press conference tomorrow to show their support for Wan Azizah.

He said the grassroots leaders opined that Wan Azizah’s arrival would raise party members’ morale and enhance unity in the face of a crucial general election battle.

He said some division chiefs have offered Wan Azizah the seats of Sementa or Pelabuhan Klang to contest.

PKR lost control of Pelabuhan Klang following the defection of its elected assemblyman Badrul Hisham Abdullah to Umno in 2010. Whereas in Sementa, the PKR candidate did not show up on the nomination day in 2008 GE, making BN the winner of the seat by default.

“Both seats are made up of Malay majority voters. We need a party heavyweight like Wan Azizah to convince them to vote for Pakatan,” he said.

There were also talks that Wan Azizah would stand in one of the state seats in the Shah Alam parliamentary constituency.

News about Wan Azizah’s return to active politics surfaced after she said she was eligible to contest in a state seat when asked yesterday.

New Straits Times reported that the wife of Anwar Ibrahim may be eyeing the Selangor Menteri Besar post.

Originally elected as Permatang Pauh parliamentarian in the 2008 general election, Wan Azizah resigned a few months later to make way for her husband’s return to politics.

Following that, she has been banned from contesting any parliamentary seats for five years.

Asked whether the division chiefs who supported Wan Azizah were not in favour of Selangor PKR chief Azmin Ali, Klang PKR division chief Yew Boon Lye denied this.

“This is not about factional fights. But since Selangor BN has appointed (Prime Minister) Najib Tun Razak as its chief, we think it would be good to have our party president to also come down.

“Pakatan’s chances in Selangor would be strengthened further if Azmin, (current MB) Khalid Ibrahim and Wan Azizah all win,” he said, adding that the party leadership would decide on the choice of MB if Pakatan retains power.

The Selangor legislature assembly would be automatically dissolved on April 22, ahead of Parliament which would dissolve on April 29.-FMT

 

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