Stand by Azmin as you did for Anwar in the past - Tian Chua
PKR vice-president Tian Chua has called on the party to stand firmly behind deputy president Azmin Ali over allegations that he was involved in a sexual tryst with Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz in a Sandakan hotel.
He said this time PKR should unite against elements which try to undermine a party leader with the same tactics used against president Anwar Ibrahim in 1998 and 2013...
PKR vice-president Tian Chua has called on the party to stand firmly behind deputy president Azmin Ali over allegations that he was involved in a sexual tryst with Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz in a Sandakan hotel.
He said this time PKR should unite against elements which try to undermine a party leader with the same tactics used against president Anwar Ibrahim in 1998 and 2013.
"We must stand together, not only to show we support or sympathise with Azmin but to reaffirm the party's starting point of reformasi. We must go back to the day when Anwar became a victim of gutter politics," Chua said after launching PKR's new Bagan branch, and office in Bagan Ajam, Penang.
"PKR must rise up to reclaim Malaysia from gutter politics. The public is sick and tired of the whole thing and wants to see a clean Malaysia, not only clean in terms of plastic pollution or corruption but also not to be using scandal or rumour mongering and dirty politics to achieve one's political aim.
"We must defend Azmin the way we defended Anwar in the past, as this is not the first time that Azmin has been attacked by wild allegations. He was also targetted while defending Anwar," he recalled.
Chua (photo) was asked if he would call for a moratorium against party members who openly attacked one another over the sex video, revealing massive fissures within the ranks.
Asked whether he agreed with PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin that Haziq should be sacked, he replied: "He does not deserve to be in the party".
"However, there is a process the party needs to follow before action can be taken against him. They are laws to comply with when dealing with a party member".
'Haziq motivated by politics'
Chua then reiterated the party's stand saying they viewed Haziq's action as being motivated by politics.
He also made a pledge to totally reject gutter politics, saying he would not have joined PKR or sacrificed 20 years for the reformasi struggle if the same tactics were allowed to rear its ugly head in the party again.
Chua said the party issued a show cause letter to Haziq (below) because he admitted to being the man involved in the sex video with Azmin, who has categorically denied any involvement in the matter.
"His claims cannot be verified. It does not make sense as Haziq went on to say that Azmin was corrupt and unfit to be a leader at one moment and that he was intimate with the minister the next moment.
"It is very clear he is politically motivated and he is a pawn in the whole game, which is why I don't give much attention to what he says, " said the former Batu MP.
Chua said anyone who wants to challenge Azmin's fitness to be a leader can do so via democratic means.
"They can challenge him in party elections, by organising press conferences to challenge his work, or go through the right channel in the party to raise issues against him but not this way, not via gutter politics again."
Asked if he agreed with Azmin that the conspiracy involving Haziq to undermine his political career was an internal plot, he said: "I don't care if it is internal or external. The ones who did it have insulted the entire nation."
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