PETALING JAYA, April 26 (Bernama) -- Former Penang Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Wanita chief Aminah Abdullah hopes the Barisan Nasional (BN) will skip the possible by-election in the Penanti state seat to enable her to take on a PKR candidate in a straight fight.
"Finally, I will come face-to-face with PKR to uphold truth and justice. Let us not conceal the truth from the people. If we are wrong, we have to admit our mistake so that it can be rectified," she told a news conference in Subang near here today.
The Election Commission (EC) has scheduled a news conference for tomorrow, possibly to make an announcement on the Penanti seat vacated by former Penang deputy chief minister I Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin.
Aminah, who is a former PKR central committee member and Bukit Bendera PKR Wanita head, had stated recently she wanted to contest the seat because she felt that PKR had veered from its original objective. She could not contest the seat in the general election last year owing to a technical problem.
She said she was not driven by emotion in arriving at the decision to contest the seat, adding that she had the support of her family and friends who were formerly in PKR.
"Kak Min is not good at playing politics but Kak Min knows that Kak Min likes to work to help the people," Aminah said of herself.
She runs a wood-carving business with husband Mohd Rofi Osman in George Town, Penang.
Prime Minister and BN chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak had said that the BN would meet to decide whether to contest the seat as doing so would incur wastage of public funds.
In KUALA LUMPUR, People's Progressive Party (PPP) president Datuk M. Kayveas said today that if the BN decided to contest the possible by-election, it should allow any other component party to contest the traditional Umno seat.
"Let us try other people," he told reporters after opening the PPP Wanita and PPP Youth meetings.
He said that in this way the BN could gauge the grassroots support to prepare itself for the next general election.
Kayveas offered the PPP's Penang chief Datuk Logabala Mogan as the candidate for the seat and said the party would make an official proposal to Najib on the matter.
He also said that the PPP elections would be held on June 7. Nominations for the post of president, three posts of vice-president and 25 posts of supreme council member would be on May 30.
The PPP constitution does not provide for a deputy president but one of its vice-presidents (three elected and two appointed) will be appointed a senior vice president, a position equivalent to that of deputy president.
Kayveas said the party's supreme council meeting yesterday unanimously agreed that the post of president not be contested, and added that he had decided to stay on as president as he believed he could still contribute to the party.
"Finally, I will come face-to-face with PKR to uphold truth and justice. Let us not conceal the truth from the people. If we are wrong, we have to admit our mistake so that it can be rectified," she told a news conference in Subang near here today.
The Election Commission (EC) has scheduled a news conference for tomorrow, possibly to make an announcement on the Penanti seat vacated by former Penang deputy chief minister I Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin.
Aminah, who is a former PKR central committee member and Bukit Bendera PKR Wanita head, had stated recently she wanted to contest the seat because she felt that PKR had veered from its original objective. She could not contest the seat in the general election last year owing to a technical problem.
She said she was not driven by emotion in arriving at the decision to contest the seat, adding that she had the support of her family and friends who were formerly in PKR.
"Kak Min is not good at playing politics but Kak Min knows that Kak Min likes to work to help the people," Aminah said of herself.
She runs a wood-carving business with husband Mohd Rofi Osman in George Town, Penang.
Prime Minister and BN chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak had said that the BN would meet to decide whether to contest the seat as doing so would incur wastage of public funds.
In KUALA LUMPUR, People's Progressive Party (PPP) president Datuk M. Kayveas said today that if the BN decided to contest the possible by-election, it should allow any other component party to contest the traditional Umno seat.
"Let us try other people," he told reporters after opening the PPP Wanita and PPP Youth meetings.
He said that in this way the BN could gauge the grassroots support to prepare itself for the next general election.
Kayveas offered the PPP's Penang chief Datuk Logabala Mogan as the candidate for the seat and said the party would make an official proposal to Najib on the matter.
He also said that the PPP elections would be held on June 7. Nominations for the post of president, three posts of vice-president and 25 posts of supreme council member would be on May 30.
The PPP constitution does not provide for a deputy president but one of its vice-presidents (three elected and two appointed) will be appointed a senior vice president, a position equivalent to that of deputy president.
Kayveas said the party's supreme council meeting yesterday unanimously agreed that the post of president not be contested, and added that he had decided to stay on as president as he believed he could still contribute to the party.
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Kayveas is hanging on to PPP like Sammy is To MIC .
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