PAS confident of retaining Kedah
PAS has administered the state well with a number of initiatives taken to reduce poverty and pay off debts, says its president Abdul Hadi Awang.
(Free Malaysia Today) – PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang today expressed confidence that the party will retain Kedah in the next general election as it has administered the state well since the last general election.
He said the state PAS leadership had implemented a number of initiatives which had benefited the people, such as reducing poverty and paying off debts to the federal government although it had only been in power for less than a term.
“InsyaAllah (God willing), we’ll be able to retain Kedah. We hope that there won’t be another Terengganu like what happened in 2004,” he said, alluding to PAS’s one-term rule of Terengganu before being toppled by the Barisan Nasional (BN).
Abdul Hadi, who spoke to reporters while visiting a pineapple plantation belonging to a subsidiary of the state government here, was responding to claims by Kedah PAS that it had fulfilled 80% of promises made in the party’s election manifesto during the last general election.
He claimed that PAS lost Terengganu in 2004 because the Election Commission (EC) had conducted what he described as massive voter transfer.
Abdul Hadi also claimed that the EC was doing the same thing in Kedah and Selangor ahead of the next general election with a view to securing victory for the BN in the two states.
