Charles Santiago fed up with PAS

(The Sun Daily) – “This is not the first time it has happened. And it certainly won’t be the last. We have, over regular intervals in the past, seen PAS blatantly going against consensus reached by Pakatan Rakyat.”

MP for Klang, Charles Santiago further said: “It certainly will not be off the mark if I said that this has led us to lose the hearts and minds of Malaysians. They are quite simply fed up with PAS’ rhetoric, which goes against the spirit of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. I am equally disillusioned.”

He said the leaked WhatsApp group chat between PAS central committee members including Mohd Zuhdi Marzuki, who is also the operations director of the PAS research centre, therefore does not really come as a complete shock.

Santiago alleged that the conservative elements within PAS have already been openly discussing the contents of the group text messages, which suggests that electoral re-delineation later this year can be made to favour Malay and Muslim voters through a PAS-UMNO pact in Selangor.

He said there was the possibility of PAS and UMNO working together to keep Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim as the Selangor mentri besar and swatting away “noises made by non-Muslims and the DAP.

“These messages have serious implications. They raise crucial questions as to how big is the faction within PAS that has aligned itself with UMNO, how much of real discussions have happened between PAS and UMNO to prompt Zuhdi to spell out a clear scenario of PAS leaving the Opposition coalition to join UMNO and how much support is there within PAS to electoral gerrymandering based on race and religion, which would only serve to steal the election,” he said in a statement.