COMMENT Now that a contest for the deputy presidency of PKR appears inevitable, it would help to look at the requisites for being No 2 in the party.

This column has floated the undemocratic suggestion that a contest for the position is just what the party does not need at this juncture.

Already in what has happened in recent days in its Sabah chapter, one reason for the no-contest school of thought – that it would split the party into factions ahead of a sooner-than-due general election - is confirmed as...