PAS likely to split after fractious elections next year
(TMI) – PAS’s elections next year will likely determine once and for all, whether the country’s largest Pakatan Rakyat party will split into two.
What makes this future clash between the party’s progressives and conservatives different from previous elections is that the loser would leave PAS and set up a new entity.
This was the scenario that both factions were looking at, said a senior PAS leader to The Malaysian Insider, indicating that it was unlikely that there could be a compromise between the two on the Islamist party’s future direction.
Both factions have said that they want to stick with PR. But they have markedly different views on how they want to work with their partners DAP and PKR.
Who comes out on top next year will greatly affect PAS’s working relationship with the coalition and determine how effectively PR can gain the support it needs to take over federal power.
The divide between these two groups reached crisis levels after the Selangor menteri besar saga and blew out into the open during its assembly in September.
“If we lose, we would have to consider whether to remain in PAS or not. There is a big possibility that we would need to form a new party.
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