Leave if Pakatan means so little, DAP MP tells PAS after hudud snub

By admin-s On Dec 24, 2014

(MMO) – DAP national publicity chief Tony Pua has suggested that PAS leave Pakatan Rakyat (PR) if it considers the pact too inconsequential to merit consultation ahead of the Islamist party’s plan to implement hudud in Kelantan.

The Petaling Jaya Utara MP said PAS was again disregarding its PR allies by refusing to share details on the Kelantan government’s plan to amend the Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II 1993, adding it demonstrated the party’s insistence on unilateral action.

Pua reminded PAS that while it was its prerogative to pursue its hudud goal, the Islamist party has committed itself to PR and agreed that any decision requires the consensus of all three component parties.

“The failure to respect the coalition and consult on all’s views only points to the fact that it has no respect for for its partners.

“Since the DAP and PKR mean so little to PAS, then perhaps PAS should just remove itself from Pakatan Rakyat,” Pua told Malay Mail Online.

PKR’s Latheefa Koya also agreed that the PAS government in Kelantan has a duty to consult all parties given the contentiousness surrounding hudud.

Accusing the Kelantan PAS government of irresponsibility, the PKR supreme council member noted that the state leaders even failed to inform the party’s central leadership of the proposed amendments.

“Firstly, the Kelantan state has not even shared with its own party’s central committee members, what more its allies in Pakatan.