PAS goes against PKR-DAP stance
PAS will be nominating three candidates from PKR.
Ishmael Lim, Free Malaysia Today
Upon emerging from a meeting with Selangor PAS yesterday, the party’s secretary-general, Mustafa Ali said PAS would obey the Sultan and nominate three candidates for the post of Selangor Menteri Besar.
It may surprise some observers that he said all three PAS nominees would be from PKR, but he explained that this was in accordance with the Pakatan Rakyat agreement that the Selangor Menteri Besar post is PKR’s and “PAS respects that.”
Still, the decision to nominate three candidates flies in the face of PKR’s and DAP’s stance that only one name be submitted to the Sultan.
Putting aside the Pakatan agreement on the MB’s post, the quandary facing PAS is that it has 15 representatives in the state assembly and anyone of those adequately fits the bill as a candidate.
Will the party’s membership tolerate the decision to “respect” the Pakatan agreement, especially given PKR’s and DAP’s insistence on going against a royal command?
It appears that PAS is being hemmed in from all sides, with the Sultan asking for more names, PKR and DAP insisting on one, and its own membership quietly hoping for one of their own to be proposed.
Mustafa did not say who PAS’s three PKR candidates will be. But he did state categorically that “the decision not to nominate any PAS assemblyman for the MB’s post is final.”
