Ex-Batu Pahat PKR leader claims 500 members leaving division, citing disappointment with party’s leadership
Former Batu Pahat PKR deputy chief Pek Hwee Seong and Batu Pahat MP Datuk Rashid Hasnon during a press conference in Batu Pahat March 12, 2020. — Picture by Ben Tan
Former Batu Pahat PKR deputy chief Pek Hwee Seong said that the decision was made due to the members’ disappointment with the party’s State Leadership Council for taking over the division after its former division chief Datuk Rashid Hasnon quit the party to be an Independent. “With that, we decided to quit the party today,” said Pek during a press conference held outside the Batu Pahat parliamentary service centre in Taman Bukit Pasir here today.Pek, who represented the other members from the division, claimed that the decision by the party leadership to take over the Batu Pahat division contravenes Article 37.9 of the party’s constitution, which states that if there is a vacuum in the division chief position, its deputy chief should be given the post.
“We feel that there was some instigation by certain parties due to its former chief quitting the party,” he said, adding that the state PKR is doing its best to explain to all Johor grassroots members on the current political scenario.
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