PAS does not plan to make up with the Pakatan Harapan federal opposition for the time being, the Islamist party’s vice-president Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah said.
“At this point in time, there has not been a review on reconciliation,” he was quoted saying by Malay language daily Sinar Harian in a report today.
“Our decision so far is to not return, and that decision remains.”
Mohd Amar said despite the loss in the recent twin by-elections, PAS had proven to have retained its core supporters.
He also admitted that fragmentation of opposition parties was a cause for their defeat, and stressed that PAS was not the initiator for the split from Pakatan Rakyat, the previous federal opposition bloc before the formation of Pakatan Harapan comprising its offshoot Parti Amanah Negara with DAP and PKR.
“It is true, when we ourselves look at the core issue, we did not want to be separate [from the other opposition parties]. Which is why we joined PR.
“We split up because there was an issue. Firstly, it was DAP’s attitude of being vocal in opposing us and our president,” he was further quoted as saying.
“We in PAS had not undermined DAP’s struggles when we were a part of PR. We know DAP is a secular party that disagrees with hudud but we had never gone against it because we know the concept of ‘agree to disagree’,” he added.
