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KUALA LUMPUR: DAP, which was due to hold an emergency central executive committee meeting to deliberate its position in Pakatan Rakyat last night, asked why PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang joined the coalition when he had already decided to go his own way on hudud.

Secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said while it was Abdul Hadi’s democratic right to table a private member’s bill, he said the PAS leader should go alone if he wanted to violate the PR consensus on hudud.

“No one is questioning Hadi’s democratic right to do so, but what about the right of PR to expect honesty and trust in its dealings with Hadi?” he said in a statement yesterday.

Guan Eng said the issue was no longer just about hudud, which the DAP opposed as being unconstitutional, but also about Abdul Hadi’s betrayal of the PR consensus.

He said the agreement among the PR parties was that the consent of all three parties must be obtained under the PR platform based on consensus, mutual trust and respect.

“In defending PAS’ violation of the PR common policy framework and PR leadership council decisions, Abdul Hadi has now said that PAS’ vision is not just 2020 but ‘the afterlife’.”

Guan Eng said, “The PR consensus was based on keeping one’s word, mutual trust and respect, a common agreement that had gained the coalition the support of 52% of Malaysian voters in the last general election.”

DAP had slammed Abdul Hadi over his unilateral decision to table a private member’s bill to allow the implementation of the Syariah Criminal Enactment II amendments in Kelantan in the current Parliament sitting, which ends on April 9.

At the Parliament lobby yesterday, DAP revealed minutes from a previous PR presidential council meeting, where it was decided that any private member’s bill by any component party must first be presented to the opposition pact’s leadership for discussion.

Revealing this, DAP national organising secretary Anthony Loke said Abdul Hadi — who was present at the Feb 8 meeting — had clearly gone against the consensus reached at the meeting.

“The decision reached at the meeting was really clear. And this was also agreed by Hadi himself,” Loke said in a press conference at the Parliament lobby. — The Malaysian Insider

 

This article first appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, on March 24, 2015.

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