PKR tells its Selangor reps to swear support for Wan Azizah

By admin-s On Aug 8, 2014

(MMO) – PKR has asked all its Selangor assemblymen to swear support for Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the state menteri besar (MB) by today, in a bid to isolate embattled incumbent Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim who refuses to quit.

The directive issued came just hours after it called Khalid yesterday to attend a disciplinary board hearing today to explain his refusal to step down as Selangor MB.

The Malaysian Insider sighted a copy of a statutory declaration sent to at least 12 of the 14 PKR state assemblymen in Selangor. The sworn statement affirms the assemblymen had lost faith in Khalid as MB and pledges support for Dr Wan Azizah to take over the job.

A PKR source said the assemblymen will have to sign the forms and hand them over to party de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim by 10am today.

It is not known yet if all PKR assemblymen have signed the statutory declaration ahead of a Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leadership meeting scheduled for Sunday.

“The move is to solidify support for Dr Wan Azizah in Selangor. She has support from the top leadership, now it must come from Selangor lawmakers,” a party insider said.

The other two PR parties, DAP and PAS, will decide on Sunday and Wednesday respectively if they support Dr Wan Azizah as the state MB. The three parties hold 44 out of the 56 state seats in the Selangor legislative assembly.

The top PAS leadership and its clerics’ council have publicly backed Khalid to stay on as MB of the country’s wealthiest state, a stand which risks a coalition break-up.