Pakatan Crisis: 'Hadi Move' defied central committee decision, submits own list

Before PAS leaders could even reel from the confusion that the Islamic party has submitted two name lists to the Selangor palace for the post of menteri besar, this puzzlement quickly turned into shock and outrage when the contents of the list came to light.

In what has now come to be known as the "Hadi Move", PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's office defying the party's central committee decision, submitted its own list of candidates to replace Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, who has lost the state assembly's majority support.

Going against the Islamic party's repeated insistence that it was not coveting the menteri besar position and respected PKR's prerogative to nominate its candidate, Hadi's office omitted PKR from the first list submitted to the palace.

Instead, the list contained three PAS executive council members - namely Iskandar Ab Samad, Sallehen Mukhyi and Ahmad Yunus Hairi - which was secretly sent to the palace on Wednesday without the party central committee or Selangor PAS' knowledge.

"I do not know at all about this development, I only knew it from the Internet," Iskandar, who is Selangor PAS commissioner," told Malaysiakini.

Even PAS' deputy president claimed he has no knowledge of the candidates apart from the two names decided at the party's Aug 17 meeting.