The Malaysian Insight

PAS wants to cooperate with Perikatan Nasional (PN) and Muafakat Nasional (MN) in order to unite the Malays and prevent domination by non-Muslims, said Abdul Hadi Awang.

The PAS president said that PN and MN have no choice but to unite if it wanted to win in the next general election

“That’s why we prefer the coalition of Malay Muslims first and we uphold MN and PN together. 

“We have to strengthen the leadership so that PN and MN empower the Malay Muslims to be united.

“If the Malays split then it will create, again, a situation where the non-Muslims will dominate, which is not aligned with the Muslim community and will cause confusion,” he said during the Minda Profesor Negara-Siri Bicara Negarawan talk on Facebook today.

Hadi said this when asked about the stand of the Islamic party on whether it will cooperate with MN or PN.

MN, which is a coalition of PAS and Umno, was established in 2019 in an effort to win GE15.

After Pakatan Harapan (PH) collapsed, the PN government was formed between Bersatu and PAS, and two other parties, with cooperation from Umno, but tension between Bersatu and Umno has been on the uptick.

In January, Umno had decided to only collaborate with PAS as a coalition in the next general election.

Umno Election director Tajuddin Abdul Rahman had urged PAS to make a decision on whether to join MN or PN.

Tajudin said that he had made the call because PAS still did not have a clear stance on their cooperation.

At the same time, Hadi also reiterated the Islamic party’s stand in support of the government’s decision to declare a state of emergency.

He said the proclamation of emergency was made in a mature way, taking into account the Covid-19 pandemic in a country that was increasingly critical of political instability. – January 19, 2021.