A leadership election was held by the

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(PKR) in Malaysia from April to July 2022 to elect new leadership on the central level. For the party presidency, it was highly unlikely for incumbent president

Anwar Ibrahim Anwar bin Ibrahim ( ms, انور بن ابراهيم, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, IPA: ; born 10 August 1947) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia since November 2022. He served as the 12 ...

to face any potential opponents and being defeated and he would hence remain as the party president given to his prominent and dominant position in the party and politics following the departure of former deputy president

Azmin Ali Mohamed Azmin bin Ali ( Jawi: محمد عزمين بن علي; born 25 August 1964) is a Malaysian politician who served as Senior Minister of the Economic Cluster and as Minister of International Trade and Industry from 2020 to 2022. A memb ...

, his followers and a number of founding members aligned to Azmin whom they were embroiled in splits and fallouts with Anwar and eventually resulted in the

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which overthrew the democratically elected

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(PH) administration. 2018 PKR election was repeated with Anwar remaining as the party president after he was elected by walkover as he was the sole candidate for the party presidency in the election. For the party deputy presidency, it was expected to see a heated contest and fight between

Rafizi Ramli Mohd Rafizi bin Ramli ( Jawi: ; born 14 September 1977) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Economy in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022 and the Member of Par ...

, former candidate and loser to Azmin in 2018 and the incumbent vice-president, who announced his return to active politics on 15 March 2022, and

Saifuddin Nasution Ismail Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution bin Ismail ( Jawi: سيف الدين ناسوتيون بن اسماعيل; born 7 December 1963) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Home Affairs in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration ...

, also a former candidate and loser to Azmin in 2014, the loyalist to Anwar and the incumbent secretary-general. Subsequently, on 29 May 2022, Rafizi defeated Saifuddin with an unexpected landslide victory in the unofficial results revealed. Saifuddin then conceded defeat and congratulated Rafizi on winning the PKR deputy presidency at night on the same day. On 4 July 2022, the results of the forensic audit of the unofficial results were revealed with a major change of the overturn of the victory in the contest for the position of Women Chief with initial winner

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being edged out extremely narrowly by her opponent

Fadhlina Sidek Fadhlina binti Sidek (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ; born 16 October 1977) is a Malaysian people, Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister of Education (Malaysia), Minister of Education in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration und ...

by a majority of mere 32 votes. Fadhlina was then declared the new Women Chief-elect. The rest of the results remained almost the same as the initial ones and no other major changes took place. The audit was done following complaints and allegations of the lack of freedom, fairness and transparency by some of the candidates.

Timeline

Nominations & Results

President

Deputy President

Vice Presidents

Women Chief

Deputy Women Chief

Youth Chief (AMK)

Deputy Youth Chief

Central Leadership Council (MPP)

References

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