PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli claims that PKR is trying to push him to leave the party voluntarily.
The Pandan MP said the party sent him a show-cause letter following his recent public statement on his plans to contest the 16th General Election (GE16) on a non-PKR ticket.
The former economy minister said that in the letter, supposedly issued to him by PKR secretary-general Datuk Dr Fuziah Salleh, the party had incorrectly inferred that his statements meant he was resigning from PKR.
"My previous statement was just a plan for when Parliament is dissolved and I am no longer bound by the anti-party hopping law. Once I am no longer an MP, it is entirely up to me what I choose to do.
"As long as I am an MP and I have not submitted a resignation letter to the party nor declared that I have joined another party, I remain a PKR member and the Dewan Rakyat Speaker cannot remove me from Parliament," he said in a statement on X on Thursday (Feb 26).
He also claimed that the intention of the letter was to coerce him to voluntarily leave the party so his current parliamentary seat would be vacated under the law.
Rafizi also claimed that the letter showed PKR's lack of courage to sack him since doing so would allow him to retain his Parliament seat.
He added that he would issue a formal response, clarifying his position, to Fuziah and PKR, after which he would leave it up to the party to determine its next course of action.
