PKR top leadership polls in May, Anwar's final term as president coming

Summary

• PKR will hold party polls for top positions on May 24, with nominations open on May 3 and 4.

• Anwar Ibrahim's coming term as president will be his last if he chooses to defend his post.

PKR will hold elections for top positions in the central, women, and youth leadership on May 24.

For party president Anwar Ibrahim, the coming term will be his last - if he chooses to defend his post which he will likely do, and be uncontested.

Anwar is currently in his second term as PKR president.

PKR secretary-general Fuziah Salleh announced the election date in a statement tonight after the incumbent central leadership committee decided on the matter.

Nominations for the posts will open on May 3 and 4.

Unlike previous PKR polls since 2010, the party will not open up voting for the top six central posts - president, deputy president, and four vice-presidents - to all members.

Instead, a delegate system has been reintroduced.

Under the new rules, 30 percent of delegates must be women.

Additionally, divisions must ensure that their voting delegates are ethnically proportional to the demographics of their respective constituencies.

At the division level, nominations will be on March 14 to 16, with polling on April 11 to 20.

In the previous party election, the hottest contest was for the deputy president post with Rafizi Ramli defeating Saifuddin Nasution Ismail by 19,000 votes.

Saifuddin was widely perceived to be Anwar's candidate in the election.

Rafizi's team also bagged three of the four vice-president posts, while Saifuddin’s ally Amirudin Shari secured the most votes in that race.

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