Parti Keadilan Rakyat
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| Party leader | Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (President) |
| Secretary General | Saifuddin Nasution Ismail |
| founding | April 4, 1999 |
| Headquarters | Petaling Jaya |
| Alignment | Progressivism , liberalism |
| Colours) | White, red, blue |
| Parliament seats | 30 of 222 ( Dewan Rakyat , 2013 ) |
| International connections | Liberal International |
| Website | www.keadilanrakyat.org |
The Keadilan ( Parti Keadilan Rakyat , English People's Justice Party ) is a liberal democratic political party in Malaysia . She used to belong to the Malaysian opposition .
founding
The party was founded by Wan Azizah Wan Ismail , the wife of former Vice Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim , whose expulsion from the UMNO and arrest in September 1998 rocked the nation. At that time, the party was still at the head of the Reformasi movement under the name Parti KeADILan Nasional , whose aim was to reform the political system of Malaysia. The Keadilan is a founding member of the former opposition coalition Barisan Alternatif , which existed from 1999 to 2004, and the Pakatan Rakyat , a new coalition that was founded in 2008.
development
Between September 27 and 30, 1999, seven Keadilan leaders, including Vice Chairman Tian Chua , were arrested and prevented from voting. Also because of an excessively close alliance with the Islamist Parti Islam Se-Malaysia , which deterred non-Muslim voters, the party only achieved five seats in parliament in the 1999 elections. On April 10, 2001, political leaders were arrested again.
In February 2003, Keadilan merged with Parti Rakyat Malaysia, which also belongs to Barisan Alternatif, and adopted its current name.
In the 2004 elections, Keadilan received 8.9% of the vote and thus only one seat in parliament. In the 2008 elections , however, it was relatively successful and won a total of 31 of 222 seats in the Malaysian parliament with 18.5% of the vote . In the subsequent elections , despite a higher total number of votes, it lost a seat in parliament and has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat with 30 members since May 2013.
Web links
- Official Website (Malaysian)