PKR POLLS | PKR deputy president candidate Rafizi Ramli alleges that there are certain groups who are intentionally trying to disrupt the party election.

These groups, Rafizi said, aim to trigger chaos if they feel like their preferred candidate is about to lose.

"When they feel they are about to lose, there will be people out to provoke, they will start to get angry and want to hold protests.

"The candidate who feels he is about to lose has planted such troublemakers.

"I will express this to (PKR president-elect) Anwar Ibrahim, and after this we will ask for cooperation from the police and the MACC.

"There are people who are out for blood, we will call for the police to put them in lockup," he said in his speech during a Pasukan Reformasi 20 Tahun gathering last night, as reported by The Malaysian Insight.

Kedah PKR was forced to suspend nine of 15 division elections yesterday after tensions flared among members unhappy with the newly implemented e-voting system.

Subsequently, the election committee announced in a Seberang Jaya press conference that the results from all Kedah divisions would be invalidated, but that the results from the Penang divisions would stand.

This led to a fight breaking out, with one member trying to fend off others with a banquet chair, and another individual throwing a chair as a projectile.

A number of state party polls were also postponed, such as in Johor, Perlis, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Malacca. 

'Polls were in my favour'

In his speech yesterday, Rafizi also claimed that the party polls in Penang were favouring him, even though it was a well-known stronghold for his opponent, incumbent deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali.

"In Penang, the chairperson Mansor Othman is Azmin's good friend, and is seen as a stronghold for the 'cartel team'.

"But the results coming out from the divisions were showing that even if I did not win, I am only a few tens or hundreds of votes behind," he said to a crowd of about 200 PKR members.

PKR Youth chief candidate Afif Bahardin, who is aligned to Azmin, said last night that his team would send an official protest letter to PKR election committee calling for the Penang election results to be cancelled.

The committee announced late last night that the election will resume on Sept 30 with the Johor divisions going to the polls.

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