People's Justice Party (Malaysia)

People's Justice Party
Malay name	Parti Keadilan Rakyat ڤرتي كعاديلن رعيت
Chinese name	人民公正党 Rénmín gōngzhèng dǎng
Tamil name	மக்கள் நீதி கட்சி Makkaḷ Nīti Kaṭci
Abbreviation	KEADILAN (official), PKR
President	Anwar Ibrahim
Secretary-General	Fuziah Salleh
Deputy President	Rafizi Ramli
Vice-Presidents	Amirudin Shari Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad Chang Lih Kang Aminuddin Harun Nurul Izzah Anwar Saraswathy Kandasami Awang Husaini Sahari
AMK's Chief	Adam Adli
Women's Chief	Fadhlina Sidek
Founder	Anwar Ibrahim Wan Azizah Wan Ismail
Founded	10 December 1998 (Formation of Pergerakan Keadilan Sosial NGO) 4 April 1999 (Takeover of Ikatan Masyarakat Islam Malaysia and renamed Parti Keadilan Nasional) 3 August 2003 (Merger with Parti Rakyat Malaysia and renamed Parti Keadilan Rakyat)
Merger of	Parti Keadilan Nasional Parti Rakyat Malaysia
Preceded by	Ikatan Masyarakat Islam Malaysia Parti Keadilan Nasional Parti Rakyat Malaysia
Headquarters	A-1-09, Merchant Square, Jalan Tropicana Selatan 1, 47410 Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Newspaper	Suara Keadilan
Think tank	Institut Rakyat
Student wing	Mahasiswa Keadilan
Youth wing	Angkatan Muda Keadilan (AMK)
Women's wing	Wanita Keadilan
Women's youth wing	Srikandi Keadilan
Membership (2022)	2.97 million
Ideology	Social liberalism[1][2] Reformism
Political position	Centre-left[3]
National affiliation	Barisan Alternatif (1999–2004) Pakatan Rakyat (2008–2015) Pakatan Harapan (since 2015)
Colours	Light blue, red, white
Slogan	Keadilan Untuk Semua Ketuanan Rakyat Demi Rakyat Reformasi Lawan Tetap Lawan Membujur Lalu Melintang Patah
Anthem	Arus Perjuangan Bangsa
Dewan Negara:	8 / 70
Dewan Rakyat:	31 / 222
Dewan Undangan Negeri:	38 / 611
Chief minister of states	2 / 13
Election symbol
Party flag
Website
www.keadilanrakyat.org
Politics of Malaysia Political parties Elections

This article is part of a series on the
Politics of Malaysia
Head of State Yang di-Pertuan Agong Ibrahim Iskandar Conference of Rulers
Legislature Parliament of Malaysia 15th Parliament Senate (Dewan Negara) President Awang Bemee Awang Ali Basah House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat) Speaker Johari Abdul Leader of the Government Anwar Ibrahim Leader of the Opposition Hamzah Zainudin
Executive Cabinet Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim Civil service (agencies) Chief Secretary Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar
Judiciary Federal Court Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat Court of Appeal President Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim High Court in Malaya ∙ High Court in Sabah and Sarawak Chief Judge of Malaya Vacant Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Abdul Rahman Sebli
Elections Election Commission of Malaysia General elections: 2022 Electoral districts
Political parties BN PH PN GPS GRS List of political parties in Malaysia
Federalism State governments Chief ministers of the states State legislatures (members) Local governments (list)
Ideologies and concepts Anarchism Communism Conservatism Feminism Rukun Negara Malay nationalism Reformasi Islam Hadhari Asian values Race and politics Dayaks in politics Ketuanan Melayu Bumiputera Malaysian Malaysia Social contract
Malaysia portal Politics portal Other countries
v t e

The People's Justice Party (Malay: Parti Keadilan Rakyat; abbrev: PKR or KEADILAN),^[4] is a reformist political party in Malaysia formed on 3 August 2003 through a merger of the party's predecessor, the National Justice Party, with the socialist Malaysian People's Party.^[5] The party's predecessor was founded by Wan Azizah Wan Ismail during the height of the Reformasi movement on 4 April 1999 after the arrest of her husband, former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. At the 2022 Malaysian general election, the PH coalition which the PKR was part of was returned to power again, albeit without a majority, leading it to form a unity government with political rivals. The party is one of main partners of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) ruling coalition in Malaysia.

In the first general elections contested by the party in 1999, the party won five seats in the Dewan Rakyat. A resurgence of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition in the 2004 general elections reduced the party to just one seat. However, an election wave in the 2008 general elections favoring the opposition increased the party's parliamentary representation to 31 seats, as well as allowing them to form the government in 5 states. This triggered the resignation of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and a lift on the five-year political ban imposed on Anwar Ibrahim on 14 April 2008.

The Pakatan Harapan coalition defeated Barisan Nasional, which had ruled the country for 60 years since independence, in the 2018 general elections, allowing the coalition to form the government. However, defections from within PKR as well as the withdrawal of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) from the coalition caused the collapse of the PH government after just 22 months in power, culminating in the 2020 Malaysian political crisis that resulted in the rise of the Perikatan Nasional government with ally-turned-enemy Muhyiddin Yassin at the helm. The PH coalition would return to power once again after the 2022 elections. The elections produced a hung parliament for the first time in the country's history, but an alliance with other parties allowed Anwar Ibrahim to become the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia through a unity government with his political rivals in Barisan Nasional as well as other political coalitions and parties to achieve a two-thirds majority in the Dewan Rakyat.

The party enjoys strong support from urban states such as Selangor, Penang, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Johor, as well as the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. It promotes an agenda with a strong emphasis on social justice and anti-corruption, as well as adopting a platform that seeks to abolish the New Economic Policy to replace it with an economic policy that takes a non-ethnic approach in poverty eradication and correcting economic imbalances.