Following DAP’s decision to cut off all cooperation with PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang due to Kelantan’s controversial hudud law, Hadi’s deputy Mohamad Sabu has called for an emergency meeting of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition’s leaders.
Mat Sabu asserted that DAP’s decision would adversely impact the political coalition, and urged his partners in Pakatan to reforge the consensus they shared before the contentious events of last week.
“The best way is for the Pakatan Rakyat leadership to meet immediately and find a common ground to stay together,” he said in a statement today, as quoted by The Malaysian Insider.
“No matter how critical the current situation is, I am confident, if we set out minds to be together in Pakatan Rakyat, we will definitely find a solution to the current situation.”
Mat Sabu’s conciliatory remarks were in stark contrast to others made by PAS leaders, who roundly derided the DAP decision, reached after a meeting of its central leadership yesterday evening.
After that meeting, DAP secretary-general and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said his party would no longer be able to cooperate with a PAS president who “persists in such dishonest and dishonorouble acts,” pointing to Hadi’s sidestepping of Pakatan’s Common Policy Framework to push for hudud, and his reaching out to rival UMNO to help get the legislation through in Kelantan.
PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali responded to DAP’s decision by calling it “childish and immature”; PAS Youth Nik Abduk Nik Aziz declared that rather than oust Hadi and PAS from Pakatan, DAP should extricate itself from the coalition.
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