Too close to pick


Through thick and thin: Azmin supporting Anwar at a press conference after his sodomy trial in 2010. Rafizi (not pictured) played a big part behind the scene in the Free Anwar campaigns.

WHO is going to win - Azmin or Rafizi?” a businessman, who is a PKR leader in Sarawak, asked me in a hushed tone.

He was referring to two-term PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali, who is defending his PKR deputy president post from challenger Rafizi Ramli, a PKR vice-president.

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