S'WAK POLLS Despite writing in to Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem, PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar continues to be barred from entering Sarawak.

PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil confirmed that the Lembah Pantai MP was barred from entering the state when she arrived at the Miri airport this morning.

In a tweet, Nurul Izzah expressed her shock over the deportation despite sending in a letter to the chief minister last Friday.

“Continuous arbitrary abuse of powers accorded to the state,” she tweeted, with an accompanying picture of her notice of refusal of entry.

Nurul Izzah first found herself barred from entering Sarawak in December last year.

This came after the Sabah state assembly voted to bar her from Sabah after she was photographed meeting with Jacel Kiram, the daughter of the late self-proclaimed Sulu Sultan, who masterminded the 2013 Lahad Datu incursion.

However, Adenan said he would consider allowing Nurul and her mother, PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, into the state if they asked him ‘politely’ to be allowed entry into Sarawak.

Wan Azizah was allowed entry into Sarawak after landing at Miri airport yesterday, although her trip is limited until May 5, two days before polling day.

More than 40 opposition lawmakers, activists and academicians are on the Sarawak state government’s ban list.

The state exercises immigration autonomy as part of the 1963 Malaysia agreement.