GE15: Pakatan-Muda seat negotiations taking place on Oct 23

PETALING JAYA: Seat negotiations between Pakatan Harapan and Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (Muda) will take place on Sunday (Oct 23) for 15th General Election, says Anthony Loke.

Loke, who is Pakatan chief whip and DAP secretary-general, said PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Parti Amanah Negara president Mohamad Sabu met to discuss this on Thursday (Oct 20).

"We have given instructions to the negotiations committee that we must meet Muda on Sunday (Oct 23)," Loke told a crowd at a Muda event in Negri Sembilan on Friday (Oct 21) night.

He also said there was nothing hindering seat negotiations between the two parties.

"We have a process which sometimes takes time and there could be frustrations on the other (Muda's) side," said Loke, adding that he meets Muda president Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman very frequently.

On Wednesday (Oct 19), Muda election director Amira Aisya Abd Aiz said that no meeting had been set between the two parties.

Anwar had announced last week that Pakatan was forming a pact with Muda for GE15 and a committee would continue discussions between the two parties.

On Tuesday (Oct 18), PKR Youth deputy chief Kamil Munim called for the presidential council to discuss Muda's plan to field a candidate in the Titiwangsa parliamentary seat.

The move drew flak from Pakatan supporters, claiming a breach of the pact.

Kamil said the Titiwangsa seat, which was won by Pakatan in GE14, should go to Amanah.

"As far as we are concerned, the seat belongs to Amanah and not PKR. We leave it to the presidential council to decide," he said after launching the wing's volunteer mission at PKR headquarters here.

Its communications director Khalid Samad had claimed earlier that the Titiwangsa seat was Amanah's before it was handed over to Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia for GE14.