In her role as PKR Women's Wing information chief, Syarul Ema Rena Abu Samah was well known for her fiery, and in most cases, coordinated responses, to attacks against the faction aligned to former party deputy president Azmin Ali.

She remained with the party amid internal calls for action against alleged "traitors", following Azmin's departure, together with former PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin and nine other leaders, to eventually form the Perikatan Nasional government...