By Selangor Journal Staff
PETALING JAYA: PKR party new campaign guidelines was
meant to promote a friendly and ethical election among all party contestants, said PKR election committee chairman Rashid Din.
It was reported in online portal FreeMalaysiaToday that Rashid said although the guidelines may seem harsh, it was done to preserve the party’s image as a whole.
“The guidelines were introduced to encourage candidates to be respectful and ethical towards each other.
“We can’t have members of the same party belittling each other as that would bring down the party’s image,” he said.
This was in response to several PKR leaders criticising the new guidelines over the weekends.
Among the clause that was lambasted in the guideline was restricting attendance at talks or feasts to no more than 100 people.
Rashid said the number was just a guideline, where it is up to the candidates on whether they want to comply to or otherwise.
“The more important thing here is that the candidates should remember this is not GE14 and their opponents are from the same party. The crowd doesn’t matter,” he said.
The new guidelines had also barred candidates from using group images in campaign materials as the materials are required to highlight the candidate alone.
The 2018 PKR election are scheduled to be held between Sept 14 and Oct 13.
After being unopposed, PKR defacto leader Anwar Ibrahim have unofficially won the party presidency post.
Incumbent President and Deputy Prime Minister Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has since announced that she will not be contesting for any of the party posts, and will not be defending her presidency to make way for husband Anwar.
The main event of the party poll will see PKR Deputy President and Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali defend his post against PKR Vice President Rafizi Ramli.
