Nurul Nuha, daughter of jailed opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, gets ready to join the protest at Dataran Merdeka today. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Seth Akmal, April 18, 2015.
Nurul Nuha Anwar has denied rumours that she will be chosen as the candidate to contest the Permatang Pauh parliamentary by-election next month, but promised to be present for PKR's campaign to defend the seat held by her father.
"No," the second child of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today when asked if she would be the candidate for the seat that fell vacant after the opposition leader failed to overturn his sodomy conviction.
The Federal Court on February 10 upheld the guilty verdict and five year jail sentence.
Nurul Nuha, 31, said she would campaign for her father, who is also PKR's de facto leader.
"My siblings are already there to help with the campaigning. I will be going. I have to. It was my father's seat. Permatang Pauh is important," she said today when met at the #KitaLawan cycling protest against the goods and services tax in Kuala Lumpur.
The by-election will be held on May 7. Nominations will be filed on April 25. PKR is expected to announce its candidate a day earlier.
Anwar's family had applied for a royal pardon from the King to free Anwar, but this was rejected, triggering the by-election.
- TMI
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