Takbir!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PAS Youth also says ‘yes’ to cut ties with PKR
ALOR SETAR: One day after PAS’ Dewan Ulama passed a motion to cut ties with PKR, its youth wing has done the same, accelerating the momentum in the party to end the increasingly troubled political cooperation between the two opposition allies.
In a sharp response to the PAS moves, PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has urged the Islamist party to do the “honourable” thing and order its leaders to vacate their positions in the Selangor administration once it decides to sever ties with PKR. The quit motion was tabled at the PAS Youth muktamar today by Terengganu delegate Abdul Rahman Che Mat and passed without debate, accompanied by cries of “takbir” (God is great) from the delegates. “There have been all sorts of attacks and allegations against our president (Abdul Hadi Awang) and PAS,” said Abdul Rahman. “Before this, our political cooperation was based on several conditions which have been contravened. Therefore, we propose that our political cooperation be terminated. ‘Cerai talak tiga’,” he said, alluding to the Islamic concept of a final dissolution of a marriage
Although the Dewan Ulama and Youth wings have adopted the quit motion, PAS’s Syura Council, the party’s highest policy-making body, must still make the final decision on the matter. In the event the Syura Council approves the decision to pull out, a clash between PAS and PKR could be on the cards, especially in Selangor where both parties are joined in a coalition government along with the DAP. PAS, PKR and DAP were once part of the now defunct Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
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