Parti Bebas Rasuah (PBR), a new political party led by former PKR Youth chief Mohamad Ezam Mohd Noor, has officially requested to be part of the Pakatan Harapan coalition.

PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil said the Parti Bebas Rasuah had made the request in writing to opposition leader Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail today.

"We will bring this matter to the Harapan secretariat's attention," said Fahmi during a press conference at the opposition leader's office in Parliament today.

Fahmi added that Harapan was open to any parties that share the same objective of "Saving Malaysia".

Parti Bebas Rasuah is the new name for NewGen Party which was established by former PKR member S Gobi Krishnan.

NewGen Party had informed the Registrar of Societies (ROS) on March 24 of its new leadership and new name.

Seats or no seat, no problem

Mohamad Ezam is the party president and his deputy is former Batu Kawan Umno division deputy chief Khairuddin Abu Hassan. Gobi Krishnan is still the party's secretary-general.

Meanwhile, Khairuddin in his visit to the opposition leader's office, said he will respect Harapan's decision on whether he will be fielded as a candidate.

"The issue of contesting or not is not a problem. Whatever it is, we will comply with the Harapan presidential council.

"If they give us seats to contest, allhamduillah, we accept it. If they don't give us any seats, we also accept it with an open heart.

"The objective is to topple the kleptocratic government led by Umno-BN," he said.