Hadi reprimands Selangor PAS

(Bernama) – PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang has reprimanded the Selangor PAS leadership for speculating on the candidacy of Datuk Dr Hasan Ali in the coming general election.

He said the party had yet to finalise its list of candidates as “we don’t know when the general election will be called”.

“Not true (that Hasan would be dropped), as we haven’t even looked at the list of candidates,” he told reporters after launching a 10-point document titled, ‘PAS offers a nation of care and opportunity’, at the PKNS Complex near here today.

Abdul Hadi was commenting on a news report that quoted unnamed sources as saying that Selangor executive councillor Hasan would be “removed” by Selangor PAS (as a candidate for the coming election), with blessings from the PAS central committee.

The report follows Selangor PAS information chief Shaari Sungib’s remarks, published in several blogs, that it was highly likely Hasan would be dropped as candidate.

Meanwhile, Selangor PAS Commissioner Dr Abdul Rani Osman, when contacted by Bernama, said Shaari should not speculate on Hasan’s candidacy as it might jeopardise the chances of other potential candidates.