PKR preaches good governance but teaches dirty polling tactics to its members, say members

By Ezra Haganez

KUDAT: At least three local Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) leaders from Kudat claimed there were irregularities too at their weekend party polls.

Ondon Mangajil, who won a divisional committee seat, said he was unhappy because of glaring irregularities at the party polls where candidates aligned to incumbent Mursalim Tanjul were allowed to assist the monitoring team appointed by headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.

“How could it be that even candidates themselves were running themselves the polling process? This does not happen in other political parties but it is allowed in PKR and worse it was only for certain group in the party.

“Other anomalies are the mysterious issuance of receipts for membership fees and the fact that the other members aligned to certain group were allowed to mark others’ ballot papers. This is terrible for PKR,” Ondon said in a statement here today.

In the poll Sunday, Mursalim retained his post as Ketua Cabang when he polled 152 votes as compared to his sole challenger Harry Manisit who garnered 98 votes.

Another leader, Daholok Sunpunadou @ Peter, also alleged the same irregularities, adding he was not sore at losing his bid for the deputy head post but could not understand how PKR, who preaches good governance but itself teaching dirty political tactics for its own members.

Endily Hj Manih won the deputy post polling 133 votes, defeating Daholok who gained 87 votes and another challenger Muslimin who polled in only 32 votes.

Harry when contacted, said he was in the process of filing official complaint to the party’s election body so that a correction could be done by the party.