{"id":79748,"date":"2020-06-19T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T09:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79748"},"modified":"2020-06-19T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T10:03:38","slug":"pkr-sticks-to-decision-to-nominate-anwar-as-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=79748","title":{"rendered":"PKR sticks to decision to nominate Anwar as PM candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 19 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The PKR central leadership council (MPP) today finalised the decision to nominate party\u00a0president\u00a0Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim\u00a0as the\u00a0prime minister\u00a0candidate for the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;meeting held this morning also concluded&nbsp;that PKR did not endorse the proposal to nominate Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the&nbsp;candidate for the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement by the PKR MPP today, the party has taken into account the views of all parties in order to find the&nbsp;best way to protect the wellbeing of the people and&nbsp;to bring justice to all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;PKR remains open to talks with all parties including Tun Dr Mahathir in the effort to save Malaysia and restore the people&#8217;s mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;However, the party has decided not to support the proposal to nominate Tun Dr Mahathir as Prime Minister, and to maintain the PH&nbsp;consensus&nbsp;to nominate Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as Prime Minister,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issue surrounding the PH prime ministerial candidate came&nbsp;to a head when the coalition seemed to be dithering over&nbsp;the matter of late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;PKR at the same time will continue to concentrate on and be prepared for snap&nbsp;general elections which may be called at any time,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, June 19 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;\u00a0The PKR central leadership council (MPP) today finalised the decision to nominate party\u00a0president\u00a0Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim\u00a0as the\u00a0prime minister\u00a0candidate for the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. The&nbsp;meeting held this morning also concluded&nbsp;that PKR did not endorse the proposal to nominate Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the&nbsp;candidate for the post. According to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":54275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}