AMK Baru was a campaign cooperation team-up to contest the Youth Wing or ''Angkatan Muda KeADILan'' (AMK) of
People's Justice Party (PKR) leadership election in 2014.
The AMK Baru team was formed and led by
Amirudin Shari
Amirudin bin Shari (; born 8 February 1980) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 16th Menteri Besar of Selangor since June 2018, Member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Sungai Tua since May 2018 and Member of ...
in February 2014, one month after the AMK Vice Chief and
Selangor state assemblyman for
Batu Caves
Batu Caves is a 325-m tall mogote with a series of limestone caves in Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia. It is located about north of the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. The cave complex contains many Hindu temples, the most popular of which is a shri ...
then announced his candidacy for the PKR Youth chief's post in the
2014 party leadership election. He soon announced the
manifesto
A manifesto is a written declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party, or government. A manifesto can accept a previously published opinion or public consensus, but many prominent ...
for AMK Baru and unveiled his team line-up.
In the three-way competition, AMK Baru faction obviously dominates the party polls with landslide victories in popular states for PKR such as Selangor and Sabah while receiving good number of polls in Penang, Kedah, Kelantan, and Perak. However, after several branches objection and ballots boxes recount, the final results over turned Amirudin's initial victory into defeat to
Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
Nik Nazmi bin Nik Ahmad ( Jawi: ; born 12 January 1982) is a Malaysian who has served as Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability in the administration of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since 2023. He has been member of ...
for the post of PKR Youth Chief.
For the record, the Deputy Chief AMK post, 3 Vice Chiefs AMK, and 16 out of 20 Central AMK Committee Members were won by representatives from AMK Baru which had led the AMK for the term from 2014 to 2018.
See also
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People's Justice Party (Malaysia)
Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR; ), is a Centre-left politics, centre-left, Reformism, reformist politics of Malaysia, political party in Malaysia formed on 3 August 2003 through a merger of the party's predecessor, the National Justice Party, wit ...
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2014 People's Justice Party leadership election
A leadership election was held by the People's Justice Party (PKR) from 29 March 2014 until 10 August 2014. It was won by incumbent President of PKR, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail
Wan Azizah binti Wan Ismail ( Jawi: وان عزيزة بنت و� ...
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