{"id":2245,"date":"2010-08-16T11:50:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T03:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2021-02-05T23:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:14:38","slug":"students-in-politics-pkr-invites-saifuddin-to-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/students-in-politics-pkr-invites-saifuddin-to-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Students in politics: PKR invites Saifuddin to lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysiakini<\/p>\n<p>Hazlan Zakaria\u00a0Aug 15, 10 \u00a012:15pm<\/p>\n<p>PKR parliamentarians have extended a call offering Deputy Higher Education Minister Saifuddin Abdullah the lead in a bi-partisan parliamentary caucus to pave the way for student participation in politics.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.malaysiakini.com\/272\/851b0d9e6af1b053788a69440cabf939.jpg\" alt=\"NONE\" width=\"200\" height=\"284\" align=\"right\" \/>&#8220;About students in politics, we are willing to work with YB Saifuddin in a caucus to work towards abolishing the University and University College Act (UUCA),&#8221; said PKR Lembah Pantai parliamentarian Nurul Izzah Anwar.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/>She added that despite Saifuddin (<em>right<\/em>) being a top Umno leader, they are still willing to work with him as long as the common goal can be attained.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/>Saifuddin has been vocal in supporting students&#8217; participation in politics, despite the hardline approach taken by other Umno leaders against the move.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/>The proposal to allow student involvement gained momentum recently after the government decided to reverse an earlier ban on graduate teachers from politics.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/>Nurul Izzah said this at a press conference after PKR facilitated a seminar on the perspective of youth on current affairs.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/>Nearly 80 students and young professionals attended the seminar organised by the Selangor State Economic Planning Unit (Upen), discussing their views on matters like education, economy and governance.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Direct elections: Zaid&#8217;s views welcomed<\/strong><\/span><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/>At the same press conference, PKR leaders were also asked if they were disappointed with Pakatan Rakyat co-ordinator Zaid Ibrahim&#8217;s recent\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/139921\"><strong>comments<\/strong><\/a> against the party&#8217;s newly mooted code of ethics for party election candidates.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media1.malaysiakini.com\/262\/bc40f7f9ca95b974281764ceeaebcaac.jpg\" alt=\"NONE\" width=\"260\" height=\"262\" align=\"right\" \/>Zaid (<em>right<\/em>) had criticised the code of ethics as encumbering candidates from being able to campaign and promote themselves adding that such strict rules mirrors the practice of his former party Umno.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/>&#8220;We welcome his views; we respect it, though we would have liked it better if it were not aired publicly. But we accept his opinion as part of the democratic process,&#8221; said Nurul Izzah.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/>PKR youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin who was also there added that they view the matter as a positive development in the party, as it evolves towards the better.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/>&#8220;The question of disappointment never arose,&#8221; said the youth chief.<br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/><br id=\"d2F3aTE=\" \/>He added that a special committee has been set up under party vice-president R Sivarasa to look into suggestions such as those raised by Zaid, to ensure that the code of ethics is implemented smoothly and in a structured manner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysiakini Hazlan Zakaria\u00a0Aug 15, 10 \u00a012:15pm PKR parliamentarians have extended a call offering Deputy Higher Education Minister Saifuddin Abdullah the lead in a bi-partisan parliamentary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[612,615,613,61,1860,618,588,617,614,616,159],"class_list":{"0":"post-2245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-education","7":"tag-bi-partisan-parlimentary-caucus","8":"tag-democratic-process","9":"tag-participation-in-politics","10":"tag-pkr","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-seminar","13":"tag-students","14":"tag-upen","15":"tag-uuca","16":"tag-young-professionals","17":"tag-zaid-ibrahim"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}