Azmin to meet Guan Eng today over PKR’s stand on possible Penang snap polls

(MMO) – PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Azmin Ali will meet Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng this afternoon to discuss the possibility of calling for early elections in the state.

It is understood that Azmin will brief Lim on PKR’s position on the issue of snap elections in Penang.

“He is heading there this afternoon to meet the chief minister to discuss the issue of snap election in Penang,” a spokesman from the Selangor mentri besar’s office told Malay Mail Online when contacted.

PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar and co-elections director Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail will also be attending the meeting between Azmin and Lim, according to a party source.

“They will be there as well. It will be a briefing on PKR’s stand and concerns about holding snap polls,” the source who asked not to be named told Malay Mail Online.

Saifuddin confirmed the matter, saying that he is already in Komtar.

“I am outside the chief minister’s office waiting to see him,” he told Malay Mail Online.

The meeting between Azmin and Lim will likely take place after the special meeting for Penang DAP federal and state lawmakers on the same issue ends.

PKR has said it does not yet see the necessity to hold an early state election in Penang, ahead of general elections due by 2018.

PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said last night that the party however was not entirely closed to the notion.

On July 11, sources told Malay Mail Online that Penang leaders were looking to have snap polls in the state to gauge public sentiment after DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng was charged with corruption.

Lim was charged with abuse of power and corruption at the Penang High Court last month over the alleged approval of a rezoning application by Magnificent Emblem to convert agricultural land to residential and over his purchase of his RM2.8 million house from businesswoman Phang Li Koon at below market value of RM4.27 million.