Anwar not eligible for PKR elections, but will contest anyway

KUALA LUMPUR The Registrar of Societies has informed Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PRK) that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is not eligible to contest in the party's elections this weekend.
Under the party constitution, a person barred from holding posts at the national level cannot hold a party post.
If Anwar wins but remains legally barred from holding the party presidency, it would likely be occupied by Deputy President Syed Husin Ali, who already has been elected unopposed, officials said.
He has expressed his intention to go ahead with the elections tomorrow.
Is Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in a hurry to become Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) president when it is still unclear that he can legally hold the post? After all, he is already the party’s adviser and de facto leader.
Some members are surprised that he seems to be more keen to become president now, especially after the party’s disastrous outing which he led in Ijok last month.
A win at the by-election would have improved morale among members and crowned him as the undisputed party leader.
It would have won him much clout among other opposition party leaders in a bid to cobble together a strong front or at least a workable electoral understanding to challenge the Barisan Nasional (BN) in the upcoming general election.
It would also have fizzled out the feeble challenge by former party treasurer and deputy president Abdul Rahman Othman, better known to his friends by his initials ARO.
Barring last minute changes, the challenge to Anwar’s bid for the presidency remains. At the same time, others are not making it easy for him to have his own line-up in the supreme council.
His wife Datin Seri Wan Azizah Ismail, who has been president since the party’s formation in 1999, has also accepted nominations for the presidency to prevent Abdul Rahman from becoming president should Anwar be declared unqualified to hold the post because of his conviction.
Although ARO does not pose a signficant threat to Anwar’s bid for the top position – long considered a shoe-in – his decision to contest against the virtual numero uno is an indication of the members’ dissatisfaction with some top leaders, including Anwar.
The withdrawal of his close buddy, Datuk S Nallakaruppan, from the vice-presidency race despite receiving the second highest number of nominations is an indication of the trouble brewing in the young party.

tunku : why anwar is so greedy and selfish? well the answer is he is greedy by nature.he has no patient like always. remember what he did to Tun Ghaffar.After he can't wait to be the PM and tried to demonized Tun Mahathir but he had failed miserably.
what anwar should do is just wait till next year, after all he is the advisor and his wife is the party president.when the time comes, the party could hold a special meeting to make election for the president.but anwar like always, too greedy.
he can betray his own buddies who helped him through thick and thin.he betrayed his best buddy nallakarupan, who used to play tennis with him and as a supplier of .....
he betrayed malaysia when he tried to sell us to IMF.
anwar should not only barred from contesting but barred from staying in malaysia.he is mother of all TRAITOR.what's going on in pkr is a proof that he is a no good leader.he talks more than action.he is king of backstabbing.