Monday, May 26, 2025

Nurul Izzah gets 9,803 voters from 22,081 Delegates entitled to vote? ODD? Why over 8,300 did not turn up to vote? If they did, Rafizi could have become Deputy President of PKR?

Nurul Izzah wins the election for Deputy President, but she secured less than 50% of all qualified Delegate voters. 

Why was there such a poor turn out, more so when the 1 member 1 vote rights have been changed to delegates? 

What will happen to these Delegates, who one may say betrayed the rights of individual members of the Branches/Divisions, whereby  it was the Delegate who held the right to vote on behalf of individual members, whereby when their Delegates did not vote, members too loss their right to vote? 

Or did these Delegates just chose to NOT VOTE in protest, or maybe they had no candidate that they could support?

If all the qualified Delegates VOTED - the results can change, and Nurul can lose - because the number of qualified Delegates that did not vote was 8,000 plus

Will disciplinary action be taken against these DELEGATES who did not turn up to vote? After all, if any Delegate decided he was not going to vote, he/she should have said so, enabling another who will be participating in the Elections be the Delegate?

Do members of Branches/Divisions have a legal cause of action against these Delegates who did not even bother to vote? I think yes, they do.  

Why did so many DELEGATES fail to turn up to vote? 22,081 Delegates were qualified to vote - but only about 13,752 turned up to vote > About 8,329 did not turn up to vote. (For the Deputy President, Nurul Izzah obtained, according to PKR records on its website, 9803 votes, and Rafizi got 3,855 votes.)

One wonders whether if the 1 member 1 vote in PKR still existed, would Nurul Izzah win?

Would PKR remove these Delegates who did not even bother to vote?

All in all, looking at the numbers that participated in the election, one wonders whether PKR is losing active members. On paper, there may be a lot of members, but as seen in some parties, even if they leave, become inactive or do not pay their annual membership fees - they still remain members? 

It is important for a member to pay his annual membership fees, for non-payment is a clear indication that he/she no longer wants to remain member of a political party > but the problem is some other, without the individual member's consent/knowledge may be paying the fees - WHY? to keep branches alive for it dies if membership drops below a certain level 

All said and done, this is really a PKR and its members affair. The rest of Malaysia keeps an eye because what they do within their party may reflect how they will govern the nation or state.



 

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