PKR hurt Pakatan but PAS killing it, analysts say of Selangor MB crisis

By admin-s On Aug 15, 2014

(MMO) – PAS may well have to bear the brunt of the blame for the current mess in Selangor as it was the party’s uncompromising stance that allowed Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim to inflict so much damage on Pakatan Rakyat (PR), analysts said.

Pundits acknowledged that the problem has its origins in PKR, which made the mistake of reappointing Khalid as mentri besar in the first place, but stressed that it was PAS that made the grievous mistake of breaking ranks with their PR colleagues over a clear case of insubordination.

“As much as we see Tan Sri Khalid isolating himself now, the PAS leadership is putting the party in the same direction.

“They are willing to sacrifice loyalty to friends for some unknown reason,” Wan Saiful Wan Jan told Malay Mail Online when contacted.

The chief executive of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) was incredulous over PAS’s lackadaisical attitude towards the current crisis, saying it was only fair for PR partners PKR and DAP to expect their support after it was agreed by the coalition’s presidential council to replace Khalid with PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

Wan Saiful argued that by postponing their meeting to this Sunday to decide their stand on Khalid, PAS only succeeded in proving their inability to come to a decision.