Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang rubbished today talk that PAS is feeling vulnerable without its former allies, saying the Islamist party can function just as well on its own.
Instead, the PAS president claimed these other parties were the ones that were dependant on PAS to stay afloat.
“PAS has been on its own for a long time. In fact it is other parties who have depended on us (for support),” Hadi told reporters at a press conference in the Parliament lobby today.
“In any demonstration where PAS does not attend, you will see that no one attends. They need our members, our machinery,” the Marang MP added.
He also stressed that PAS will never join Pakatan Harapan.
“We have no hope with those who use an express bus to reach their destination,” Hadi said.
PAS has said it believes Pakatan Rakyat (PR) is still a functioning coalition even without the DAP, and has announced plans to strengthen the pact with the help of PKR and other parties in the peninsula as well as in east Malaysia.
In a statement last weekend, PAS deputy president Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said that without the DAP, PR is still seen as a sturdy and viable political platform.
Tuan Ibrahim also said a recent meeting held with PKR resulted in an agreement to strengthen cooperation through discussions at the state level and the federal territories.- source themalaymailonline
