KUALA LUMPUR: PKR Women have identified nine more parliamentary seats to be contested in the upcoming 15th General Election (GE15) to achieve its target to have 20 PKR Women representatives in Parliament.
Its chief, Fuziah Saleh, to achieve that, the movementâs election committee had also taken several steps including identifying potential candidates to be fielded.
âSo far, PKR Women representatives are holding 11 parliamentary seats and we are planning to retain that 11 seats in the GE15 and contest in nine other seats.
âThe aspiration of having a minimum of 30 per cent women as policymakers in the country has been bandied about for far too long and even enshrined in the party constitution. We donât want it to be rhetorical and just a note in the history book, we want to see it implemented,â she said in her policy speech at the PKR Womenâs Congress in conjunction with the PKR National Congress 2020 today.
Themed âAspire to be an Inspirationâ, the PKR Womenâs Congress was graced by the partyâs Advisory Council chairman Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail(pix) and was held virtually following the implementation of total lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.
As of April this year, she said PKR Women members now numbered 408,038 of the total PKR members of 1,034,093. –Bernama
