Drug dealers as candidates?
PAS president makes an ‘outrageous’ claim insinuating that some candidates picked by the opposition coalition even sold drugs.
(FMT) – PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang yesterday revealed that the Islamic-based party had information that several candidates picked to contest by other Pakatan Rakyat component parties had ideologies that were different to the opposition coalition.
Abdul Hadi alleged that he also received information on candidates who had an understanding that was different from the coalition.
“There are some candidates who we fear are involved in selling methamphetamine. How can they be candidates?”
“There are even some who put up pictures of (Vladimir) Lenin, (Joseph) Stalin and Karl Marx at the headquarters. PAS cannot work with such candidates,” he said referring to candidates who hold the communist ideology, but did not reveal the individual.
He said this at a PAS ceramah at Kampung Tebakang, Mukim Alor Limbat, here last night, Bernama reported.
Hadi had said this while explaining the seat clashes between PAS and other Pakatan Rakyat components. Pakatan, the opposition pact made up of PKR, PAS and DAP, will be going against each other in at least seven seats in the coming general election, which will see polling on May 5.
PAS will fight with its component party PKR and Barisan Nasional candidates in the Labuan parliamentary seat, state seats of Panti, Sungai Acheh (Penang), Kota Damansara (Selangor), Bukit Besi, Kota Putera and Seberang Takir (Terengganu).
Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) is another opposition party which has been asking for entry into Pakatan Rakyat. Although the opposition coalition have yet to accept PSM as a member, both parties had agreed to work together in the polls.
The party is contesting four seats — one parliament and three state. It will use the PKR logo for the Sungai Siput parliamentary seat in Perak and Kota Damansara state seat in Selangor. It will use its own logo for the Semenyih (Selangor) and Jelapang (Perak) state seats as it was not able to reach a consensus on the issue with Pakatan Rakyat component parties. In the last two seats, it also faces PKR and DAP candidates.
