Malaysiakini - Rafizi: Azmin went to Turkey to ask for PKR presidency (extracts):
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PKR deputy presidential candidate Rafizi Ramli has claimed that his opponent Mohamed Azmin Ali travelled to Turkey to ask Anwar Ibrahim for the party president post.
According to Rafizi, Azmin had told president-elect Anwar, who was in Turkey to receive medical treatment, to step aside and allow him to become the president of PKR instead.
According to Rafizi, Azmin had told president-elect Anwar, who was in Turkey to receive medical treatment, to step aside and allow him to become the president of PKR instead.
"I can say here that he (Azmin) went to Turkey to meet with Anwar himself.
"Anwar was about to go for surgery, and he (Azmin) went to meet him to say 'You don't have to contest, let me become the party president.'
"If this story wasn't true, I would not say it live like this," he said during his ceramah at the Reformasi 20 Tahun programme in Kota Bharu last night.
Rafizi said he made the revelation to provide context to his rival terming critics who were not present at the birth of the 1998 Reformasi movement "little children."
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"When the so-called 'young ones' question things like this, they say we are new from the forest, new from the estate.
"Now let me ask you, Azmin; you met with Anwar personally in Turkey to ask to become the president, is it wrong if other friends ask why you could not support Anwar as president from the beginning?.
Looks like Azmin lost his patience waiting for his turn, or he was "urged" to "take charge".
In my post yesterday Bombshell - how Mahathir kowtim-ed Anwar Ibrahim kaukau I wrote:
... it isn't implausible that Mahathir wanted to kowtim Anwar kaukau. He hates Anwar invincibly, thus I have often said, he won't give up the PM seat to Anwar.
One of the ways is to fCk up Anwar's chances in the coming by-election organised for the PKR Boss.
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"Anwar was about to go for surgery, and he (Azmin) went to meet him to say 'You don't have to contest, let me become the party president.'
"If this story wasn't true, I would not say it live like this," he said during his ceramah at the Reformasi 20 Tahun programme in Kota Bharu last night.
Rafizi said he made the revelation to provide context to his rival terming critics who were not present at the birth of the 1998 Reformasi movement "little children."
"When the so-called 'young ones' question things like this, they say we are new from the forest, new from the estate.
"Now let me ask you, Azmin; you met with Anwar personally in Turkey to ask to become the president, is it wrong if other friends ask why you could not support Anwar as president from the beginning?.
Looks like Azmin lost his patience waiting for his turn, or he was "urged" to "take charge".
In my post yesterday Bombshell - how Mahathir kowtim-ed Anwar Ibrahim kaukau I wrote:
... it isn't implausible that Mahathir wanted to kowtim Anwar kaukau. He hates Anwar invincibly, thus I have often said, he won't give up the PM seat to Anwar.
One of the ways is to fCk up Anwar's chances in the coming by-election organised for the PKR Boss.
Another is to have someone, a "selected" someone replace Anwar, forever.
