A leadership election was held by the People's Justice Party (PKR) in Malaysia from April to July 2022 to elect new leadership on the central level.
Events For the party presidency, it was highly unlikely for incumbent president Anwar Ibrahim 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, 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 2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis which overthrew the democratically elected Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration. The 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, 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, 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 Rodziah Ismail being edged out extremely narrowly by her opponent Fadhlina Sidek 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 +DatesEvents11 April 2022Nominations opened13 April 2022List of initial candidates revealed14–15 April 2022Declines of nominations16 April 2022Results of declines revealed17–19 April 2022Appeals for results20 April 2022List of final candidates revealed21 April 2022Deadline for virtual voters to update their mobile applications of voting13–22 May 2022Physical voting 17 May 2022Virtual voting for overseas members18–20 May 2022Virtual voting29 May 2022Unofficial results revealed4 July 2022Results of the forensic audit of the unofficial results revealed 15 July 2022Youth National Congress16 July 2022 Women National Congress17 July 2022Central National Congress and official results revealed
Nominations and results
Central Leadership Council (MPP)
President Candidate Members' votes Anwar Ibrahim Unopposed
Deputy President Candidate Members' votes Mohd Rafizi Ramli 59,678 (58.12%) Saifuddin Nasution Ismail 43,010 (41.88%)
Vice Presidents Candidate Members' votes Amirudin Shari 46,075 Chang Lih Kang 34,939 Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad 34,496 Aminuddin Harun 33,230 Manivannan Gowindasamy 29,117 Farhash Wafa Salvador 27,015 Fahmi Fadzil 24,351 Fuziah Salleh 22,534 Chan Ming Kai 22,344 Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid 20,761 Gunarajah George 20,164 Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin 16,269 Thiban Subbramaniam 15,155 M. A. Tinagaran 11,086 Azan Ismail 5,699 Mustaffa Kamil Ayub 5,620 Summugam Rengasamy 5,313
Central Leadership Council Members Candidate Members' votesMaszlee Malik 1,091Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir 956Romli Ishak 878Fahmi Zainol 817Yahya Sahri 804Nor Azrina Surip 797Lee Chean Chung 788Siti Aishah Shaik Ismail 783Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh 739Gerald Hans Isaac 720Simon Ooi Tze Min 703Wong Chen 697Raiyan Abdul Rahim 697Tan Kar Hing 648Zahir Hassan 642David Cheong Kian Young 622Hee Loy Sian 619Amidi Abdul Manan 617Elizabeth Wong Keat Ping 598Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik 594Muhamad Arafat Varisai Mahamad 588Ginie Lim Siew Lin 580Halim Bachik 576Johari Abdul 558Faizah Ariffin 555Che Zam Hamzah 549Abdul Halim Hussain 539June Leow Hsiad Hui 530Sivarasa Rasiah 526Kesavan Subramaniam 515Madhi Hasan 506Rusnah Aluai 495Awang Husaini Sahari 492M. Anbarasan Murugesu 469Azmizam Zaman Huri 455Loh Ker Chean 444Gooi Hsiao Leung 434Zaidi Ahmad 432Jimmy Puah Wee Tse 428 410Maria Chin Abdullah 409Mustapa Mansor Amer Mohd Isa 396Mohd Amin Abdul Mem 388Mohd Najwan Halimi 387Afdlin Shauki Aksan 343 339Zamri Yusuf 330Baldip Singh Santokh Singh 314Gopalakrishnan Subramaniam 300Gunarajah George 292Shatiri Mansor 282Yaakob Sapari 277Ravi Munusamy 263Adzman Kamaruddin 263Zulkifly Mohamad 262Mohd Aizuddin Ariffin 261Mohd Zukri Aksah 251Tan Chin Wuu 238Zaidi Yusoff 229Nor Irwan Ahmat Nor 207Halim Khomiza 207Abdul Razak Ismail 202Karupaiya Mutusami 191Maneyvannan Velue 140Arastam Pandorog 131Zulqarnian Zakariah 91Ong Khan Lee 73Tee Choon Keong 61Mohd Zawawi Ahmad Mughi (withdrew) 35Mohd Rafee Ibrahim (withdrew) 22Mohd Fakhrulrazi Mohd Mokhtar (withdrew) 18Mustapha @ Mohd Yunus Sakmud (withdrew) 16Disqualified 6
Central Women’s Leadership Council (MPWP)
Women's Chief Candidate Members' votesFadhlina Sidek 18,923Rodziah Ismail 18,891
Deputy Women's Chief Candidate Members' votesJuwairiya Zulkifli 15,693Napsiah Khamis Maharan 12,043Faizah Ariffin 9,763
Vice Women's Chiefs Candidate Members' votesWasanthee Sinnasamy 14,947June Leow Hsiad Hui 13,358Sangetha Jayakumar 13,350Loh Ker Chern 12,942Siti Aishah Shaik Ismail 12,273Junaidah Makku 11,931Sabrina Ahmad 9,080Shamala Vasudevan 8,050Rufinah Pengeran 5,307Hasmorni Tamby 4,614
Central Youth Leadership Council (MPAMKP)
Youth Chief Candidate Members' votesAdam Adli Abd Halim 12,301Fahmi Zainol 9,850
Deputy Youth Chief Candidate Members' votesKamil Abdul Munim 11,526Chua Wei Kiat 10,389
Vice Youth Chiefs Candidate Members' votesAtyrah Hanim Razali 10,898Pravin Murali 10,398Prasanth Kumar Brakasam 10,330Izuan Kasim 10,291Ahmad Danish Hairudin 10,081Wendey Agong Baruh 7,936
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