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Nurul, please don’t insult the intelligence of Malaysians!
KUALA LUMPUR, May 20, 2025: PKR’s appointed vice-president Nurul Izzah, who is challenging incumbent deputy president Rafizi Ramli, laments that infighting may lead to the party’s demise within five to 10 years.
Just who started the infighting? Who started the PKR leadership electoral battle?
It’s your father, party president Anwar Ibrahim, and you yourself!
So, what are you complaining about, now?
Please don’t insult the intelligence of Malaysians! Don’t be an ass thinking Malaysians are stupid or morons!
What wrong has party faithful and committed reformist Rafizi done to deserve your father and your current attempt to rid Rafizi from the party leadership?
Malaysians can see clearly Anwar pitted Nurul in this second attempt to unseat Rafizi because the “Abim and Umno DNA” in Anwar is too overwhelming for him to discard the politics of nepotism and patronage ala Umno-style.
The first attempt was in 2022 when Anwar backed Saifuddin Nasution in the deputy presidential election but was humbled with a more than 16,000-vote majority loss.
The real reason for the current PKR leadership dispute is caused by Anwar’s obsession to rid the party of young and old reformists who are the stumbling block or thorns to his governance of nepotism and patronage ala Umno style.
And already something fishy is smelling in the conduct of the elections. Only 29,000 of some one million members will be present to cast their ballots in Johor Baru.
The rest will be using the electronic system to cast their votes. Who and how is the process being monitored when the election machinery is so anti-Rafizi?
No News Is Bad News reproduces below a news report on the garbage Nurul is lamenting about post-PKR elections:
Infighting will wipe out PKR in 5 to 10 years, warns Nurul Izzah
The PKR deputy president candidate urges all party members to close ranks once the party polls conclude.
PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar urged all leaders to prepare the party in the coming 24 months for the next general election.
PETALING JAYA: PKR deputy president candidate Nurul Izzah Anwar warns that infighting may lead to the party’s demise within five to 10 years.
The daughter of PKR president and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim urged all party members to close ranks once the party polls conclude.
“A PKR unable to handle challenges lying ahead will result in us disappearing in the next five to 10 years.
“My main criticism of the electoral system is that we always end up fighting each other. We have to press forward after the polls,” she said in Negeri Sembilan today.
The PKR vice-president also urged all leaders to prepare the party in the coming 24 months for the next general election.
“In the next 24 months, we need to strengthen our efforts to win the marginal seats,” she said.
Nurul Izzah said she is also engaging with religious scholars and teachers to strengthen the party and deal with baseless accusations levelled at PKR, recalling the days when PAS spiritual leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat stood firmly with the party in similar circumstances.
She urged party members to stand firm in their idealism, especially the party’s belief in taking care of its grassroots members, and to stay strong in the face of future challenges.
“I don’t want us to lose what we have achieved so far in the next five to 10 years. This is not about me, but our mission in championing justice,” she said.
Nurul Izzah is in a one-on-one contest with Rafizi Ramli for the PKR deputy presidency.
On the campaign trail, Rafizi has taken swipes at the likes of PKR vice-president contender R Ramanan and MP Hasan Karim, both of whom have publicly endorsed Nurul.
He had even at one point cynically suggested that party delegates vote for Nurul as the next PKR deputy president.
Recently, he said he would skip the Youth and Wanita congress, traditionally officiated by the deputy president, citing principles over politics.
He said his refusal stemmed from a breach of party protocol after the Sabah PKR election machinery launch was allegedly announced without prior discussion by the party’s political bureau or central leadership council.
‘Nationalising’ of internal troubles repulsive to fence-sitters, PKR warned
Analyst says Rafizi Ramli’s campaign has been particularly damaging, with political finesse and humility considered crucial attributes in Malaysian politics.
Incumbent Rafizi Ramli and Nurul Izzah Anwar are vying for the deputy president’s post at PKR’s triennial election, scheduled to be held this Friday, May 23.
PETALING JAYA: PKR must prevent its internal disputes from escalating into a national spectacle to avoid alienating fence-sitters ahead of the next general election (GE16), warns an analyst.
Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid said the party had even managed to drag one of its close allies into their squabbles, citing DAP MP Wong Shu Qi’s criticism of PKR’s Wong Chen for linking her party to money politics.
Despite PKR president Anwar Ibrahim being the prime minister, Fauzi told FMT the party needs to be more realistic about its actual strength and support, given it holds 31 parliamentary seats, compared to DAP (40) and PAS (43).
“Among the majority Malay-Muslims, support for PKR has never hovered above 30%, as admitted by its deputy president Rafizi Ramli.
“PKR’s behaviour of nationalising its troubles for public consumption is repulsive, especially for unity-loving Malays.
“It’s not as if we are facing a national election between two potential deputy prime ministers,” he said, pointing out that the outcome of the PKR deputy presidency contest would have no impact on the national leadership.
Much of the attention in PKR’s elections is on the race for the deputy presidency, which is being contested by Rafizi, the incumbent, and Anwar’s daughter, Nurul Izzah, a former MP for Permatang Pauh (2018 to 2022) and Lembah Pantai (2008 to 2018).
Nurul Izzah’s campaign has remained relatively muted, but more than 200 PKR divisions have announced their support for her, including the party’s Hang Tuah Jaya division now led by Anwar’s senior political secretary Shamsul Iskandar Akin.
Rafizi, on the other hand, has been particularly outspoken in his campaign events, training his guns on various PKR leaders and candidates, and attracting criticism as a result.
Rafizi, the economy minister and Pandan MP, has also broken party tradition by declining to officiate at the party’s youth and women’s wings congresses, a role customarily fulfilled by the deputy president.
Fauzi warned that parties like PAS would seek to exploit PKR’s internal discord and its struggle to muster Malay support ahead of GE16.
The political analyst said Rafizi’s campaign was particularly damaging for the party, describing the Malay community as one that upholds virtues such as forgiveness and does not demean enemies.
“In Rafizi’s case, he has looked down upon (PAS election director) Sanusi Nor to the extent of questioning his tertiary qualification, which was legally obtained from USM.”
He described Rafizi’s actions as “ignorant”, leading to the “wrongful vilification” of a political rival, and said the remarks were uncalled for. “However you dislike your adversary, you shouldn’t degrade any achievements they have accomplished.”
While Rafizi’s strength lay in facts and figures, Fauzi said political finesse, humility and a polished character were crucial attributes in Malay and Malaysian politics.
“That’s why even in PKR, many youngsters are unsurprisingly drawn to Nurul Izzah’s side. Policy debates can come at the national level, when PH is fighting against Perikatan Nasional, for example.
“But when it involves party colleagues, why should the whole nation be dragged into a debate with potentially fractious implications for PKR?”
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