PKR outlines five core values in Pakatan Harapan manifesto

SHAH ALAM: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) today outlined five core values to be put in the Pakatan Harapan manifesto ahead of the 14th General Election.
Party president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said the five core values are to reform the economic sector and political institution, social stability, worker’s welfare, Sabah and Sarawak autonomy and uniting Malaysians.
“Keadilan vows to champion the people’s supremacy, our manifesto will focus on the people’s agenda.
“The income gap must be improved in order for us to achieve social justice,” Wan Azizah said in her policy speech when officiating the party’s annual congress held at Dewan Raja Muda Musa here.
She added the party is introducing a ‘Better Jobs, Higher Wages’ policy in order to achieve the workers reform where quality jobs will be introduced while the average salary will be increased.
“PKR is aware that the employees paycheck has not been increased since the past two decades.
“For example, the average salary of a university graduates in 2017 is RM2,000, this is as much as they got in 1997,” she said.
Wan Azizah added the party acknowledged that Felda (Federal Land Development Authority) is the most important area for the party to focus in the upcoming election.
She said PKR has since come out with five resolutions to uplift the livelihood of the settlers.
Meanwhile, the de facto opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim condemn its former allies PAS as the Islamist party has accused PKR for not backing the motion to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdictio) Act 1955, or better known as RUU355.
Anwar’s mandate, which was read by his daughter and PKR vice president Nurul Izzah Anwar said the party respected PAS for wanting to table the bill, but the latter must first present it to the Parliamentary select committee.
“PKR respects PAS’s right to present (the bill), but it must first be presented to the Parliamentary select committee.
“The one who decided not to table the bill is (Prime Minister) Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak. That means the bill has been put to its grave,” he said.