KUANTAN: Pahang PKR Youth is threatening to discipline a candidate towards Bilut assemblyman Lee Chin Chen over his name for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to step down as Opposition chief.
The chapter’s management council mentioned the DAP assemblyman’s name for Anwar’s withdrawal because of the coalition’s loss within the current Melaka state election was absurd.
“He positioned the total burden on Anwar for Pakatan Harapan’s defeat with out presenting any autopsy based mostly on knowledge and scientific information.
“Regardless of being given a interval to withdraw the assertion, the Bilut assemblyman nonetheless insists on defending it though such issues may be mentioned via a consensus area within the Pakatan presidential council, which convenes each month,” the chapter’s management council mentioned in a press release.
Lee, who’s the Pahang Opposition chief, claimed that Anwar had failed to guide the Opposition bloc throughout the state election and known as on him to step down in order that Pakatan may select a brand new successor.
He mentioned if there was no hope for the Pakatan management to make modifications, the highest leaders of DAP should take into account withdrawing from the alliance and discover different methods to cooperate with one another.
The management council additionally issued a complete name to the ranks of the PKR Youth wing to droop any cooperation in issues associated to the Bilut assemblyman in the intervening time.
“We’re additionally ready to discipline a candidate from the Pahang PKR Youth wing wherever he’ll contest within the subsequent common election as a protest towards the vanity of the Bilut assemblyman if he’s nonetheless cussed and doesn’t retract his assertion,” it mentioned.
Lee’s remarks additionally drew condemnation from the Pahang PKR management council, which mentioned that solely the Pakatan presidential council may decide Anwar’s place because the coalition’s chairman and Opposition chief.
