{"id":239,"date":"2018-08-05T17:16:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T09:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2018-08-23T10:35:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T02:35:25","slug":"rafizi-confirms-contesting-pkr-deputy-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Rafizi confirms contesting PKR deputy presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PETALING JAYA, Aug 5 (Bernama) &#8211; PKR vice-president Rafizi\u00a0Ramli\u00a0confirms he will be contesting for the party\u00a0deputy presidency in its upcoming polls following the submission of his nomination form today.<\/p>\n<p>The form was submitted by his representative at PKR headquarters here about 11.30 am.<\/p>\n<p>According to PKR Elections Committee secretary Ismail Yusof, they had received two nomination papers for the party vice-presidency \u2013\u00a0namely from\u00a0Selayang Member of Parliament\u00a0William Leong and former\u00a0Subang Jaya Municipal Council councillor\u00a0Micheal Tamil \u2013 as at noon.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 22 nomination forms were received for 20 positions in the PKR\u2019s Central Leadership Council.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0PKR vice-president Fuziah Salleh, who is also Kuantan\u00a0Member of Parliament (MP), had submitted her nomination form for the Wanita\u00a0chief\u00a0post about noon.<\/p>\n<p>The form was proposed by Selangor State Executive Councillor Rodziah Ismail and supported by Akademi Keadilan\u00a0Training Bureau Strategic director, Dr Zaliha Mustafa.<\/p>\n<p>Johor\u00a0Bahru\u00a0MP Akmal\u00a0Nasir and Kota\u00a0Anggerik\u00a0state assemblyman Najwan Halimi\u00a0had filed their nomination papers for the PKR\u2019s Youth wing, Angkatan Muda\u00a0Keadilan\u00a0or AMK, chief post.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Melaka\u00a0AMK deputy chief Naqiuddin Nazrin\u00a0had submitted the nomination form for the national AMK deputy chief post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;\u00a0BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETALING JAYA, Aug 5 (Bernama) &#8211; PKR vice-president Rafizi\u00a0Ramli\u00a0confirms he will be contesting for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[49,50],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-pkr","tag-rafizi"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsium-slider-full":"","newsium-featured":"","newsium-medium":""},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}