PKR reshuffle

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Anwar strengthens grip in PKR reshuffle

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KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 – Azmin will no longer be elections campaign director. He will be replaced by Saiffudin Nasution. Azmin will now head a task force to strengthen party leadership at the state and division levels.
Vice presidents Dr Lee Boon Chye, Sivarasa, Mustafa Kamil Ayob and Dr Jeffrey Kitingan together with Youth Chief Shamsul Iskandar and Women’s chief Zuraidah Kamaruddin will be part of Azmin’s task force.

Tian Chua has been re-designated to strategic director while his place has been taken over by Latheefa Koya.

“Wan Azizah will give statements on emerging issues and her presence should be further highlighted,” Anwar wrote on his blog today.

Wan Azizah is seen as someone that Anwar can trust and as a leader, she is someone who is relatively immune from negative attacks from the Barisan Nasional.

The de factor PKR leader also said that deputy president Dr Syed Husin Ali will focus on policy and Malay and Bumiputra issues.

Other changes announced by Anwar today:

Training committee chairman: Fauziah Saleh.

New membership committee chairman: Johari Abdul.

International relations committee chairman: Mustafa Kamil Ayob.

Deputy chairman: Dr Tan Kee Kwong.

Communication chief: Johnson Chong.

Discipline committee chairman: Datuk Yeop Adlan Che Rose.

Deputy secretary generals: Abdul Halim Yusof, Paul Gadang, Raveentharan and Sharifah Shahidah

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Anwar prepares PKR for long battle with Najib’s Umno
By Baradan Kuppusamy

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has made sweeping changes to PKR as Pakatan Rakyat (PR) prepares to face off with the resurgent Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) of Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

PKR insiders say there is an urgent need to hunker down for a long, tough battle with a Umno united under Najib and Anwar’s old nemesis Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Najib has been working simultaneously on several fronts — economic, financial and political — to consolidate his power base, mow down his political enemies and recoup the losses suffered by BN in the 2008 general elections.

“PKR is the main target as PKR is the glue that holds the Pakatan Rakyat together and it is we who will take the full brunt,” a PKR insider said of Najib’s strategy.

Anwar’s decision to give a bigger role as party spokesperson to Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Ismail is significant because it was she, as the aggrieved wife and symbol of resistance, who had held the PKR together during the six-long years when Anwar was in prison.

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