PKR deputy presidential candidate Nurul Izzah Anwar has spoken up on the perception of PKR being a “family party” following her decision to contest the party’s second-highest post in the upcoming leadership election.

Nurul Izzah, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister and PKR president Anwar Ibrahim, said the label is not a new attack and has been used since 1998, when she, alongside the reform movement’s founders and activists, established PKR.

“This label has been...