PETALING JAYA, MAY 26- PKR will not heed Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s call for national reconciliation as the government persists in taking a hardline stance on its detractors, said PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution today.
In his winding-up speech at the PKR national congress today, Saifuddin said the party would shun the government’s talk for national reconciliation since it bears no sincerity.
“You can’t be talking about national reconciliation and at the same time playing up racial sentiments, asking your detractors to migrate, clamping down on activists and doing selective prosecutions,” he said.
“This kind of reconciliation offer, we won’t in any way respond,” he said.
On a separate matter, he also said PKR would soon appoint coordinators in all the parliamentary or state constituencies it failed to win in the recently-concluded 13th General Election.
He said this is to avoid late confirmation of candidates like what happened in the past, but stressed that those who are chosen as coordinators does not necessarily mean they cannot be changed later.
Meanwhile, PKR deputy president Azmin Ali when winding up his speech said the party would continue to hold negotiations with component parties on seat allocations issues.
He dismissed the notions that PKR is the weakest link in the Pakatan Rakyat pact, saying that he would continue to play the “bad cop” role to defend what belongs to the party.
He also said PKR should have become the dominant party in Selangor by winning 16 seats, if not because of “the infightings occurred among themselves” in the Kota Damansara and Semenyih state seats.
“That’s why I am very firm (about PKR seat allocations) when it comes to Selangor, because for me we are not winning only 14 seats, but 16 seats.
“We lost Semenyih and Kota Damansara not because of Umno but because of infighting among ourselves. That’s why I urge the top leadership of Pakatan to uphold what has been decided in the meetings before,” he said, without elaborating what the decision was.
PKR bagged 14 state seats while DAP and PAS won 15 seats respectively in the recent polls.
It is however noted that Kota Damansara and Semenyih were the two seats traditionally contested by Parti Socialis Malaysia (PSM), but was forced into multi-corner fights after Pakatan Rakyat refused to give way.
