PAS, in anticipation of PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail being named the candidate, is still saying: “Wan Azizah must retract her anti-hudud statement and apologise to PAS.”
Nomination day is Saturday and polling is on May 7. The Opposition coalition has decided that PKR will field a candidate to contest the seat left vacant when PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim was jailed five years for sodomy.
Omar Hassan, the chairman of the PAS Permatang Pauh division, speaking after yesterday’s divisional meeting which ended early this morning, said Wan Azizah has to apologise to the party because she rejected hudud.
The division took the stand on Wan Azizah at its annual general meeting on Sunday.
PKR and especially DAP have objected to PAS’ hudud stand, especially after the PAS-led Kelantan government got the state assembly last month to amend its Syariah Criminal Code II Enactment.
Matters took a turn for the worse when DAP announced it was “severing ties” with PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang for his insistence on hudud but not the party.
Omar claimed the Bukit Mertajam, Nibong Tebal, Balik Pulau and Batu Kawan PAS divisions supported the Permatang Pauh move.
He said they were thankful that Hadi respected the division’s stand and was confident that “our leaders will find a good solution to this matter”.
PAS Permatang Pauh division information chief Jamsari Samad denied that their stand was a prelude to boycotting the by-election.
“We are not saying that we are boycotting the by-election. We are just asking Dr Wan Azizah to retract the statement that they won’t support hudud and apologise to all PAS members,” said Jamsari in a report carried by the Malaysian Insider.
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