KUALA LUMPUR, October 14 – The People’s Justice Party (PKR) will finalize the candidates for the 15th General Election (GE15) before the Election Commission (SPR) meeting on 20 October. Its Deputy President, Rafizi Ramli said, the party is currently screening and giving preliminary marks so that all potential candidates can be discussed in the Candidates Committee meeting this Wednesday. Taking into account the sentiment of voters who demand better quality candidates from the competing parties.

PKR introduced a more transparent, uniform, objective and democratic candidate screening and evaluation process,” he said in a statement on Wednesday. Rafizi explained, the filtering and scoring of the party’s candidates takes into account 30 percent of the strength of the election machinery that has been built and the performance of field campaigns to win over voters.