PR endorses Dr Wan Azizah as sole candidate for Selangor MB post

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PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has endorsed Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah, who is also Kajang assemblyman, as their sole candidate for the post of Selangor Menteri Besar (MB).

This was a followup to the decision taken by a special meeting of PAS’ Central Committee earlier yesterday which named Dr Wan Azizah and PKR deputy president Mohamad Azmin Ali as the party’s choices to replace current MB Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim .

Opposition chief and PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim stressed at a media conference here tonight that he maintained his support for PKR’s decision to name Dr Wan Azizah as the candidate for MB.

Azmin, who was also present, also reiterated his support for Dr Wan Azizah as the candidate for the post of MB of Selangor saying it was in line with the statutory declarations signed by 30 Selangor assemblymen in stating their support for the president of PKR to be the new MB.

Also present were DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu.

Pakatan Rakyat is made up of the DAP and PAS and has a two thirds majority in the 56-seat state assembly.

PAS, in at the special meeting, had  also announced that it no longer backed the leadership of Abdul Khalid as MB. — Bernama