It's not all that clear whether a user must have write permission (at the project level) to be able to create a pull request after pushing to a defect oriented branch. The help page implies that the user would not be able to push.
In order to create a pull request you need write permission, either on the project level that applies to all repositories, or on a specific repository.
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