PAS: Selangor excos remain so that DAP doesn’t do “bad job”
FMT Reporters | May 14, 2017
State commissioner Sallehin Mukhyi says DAP had set a precedent when its executive councillors did not resign after the party ended ties with Pakatan Rakyat.
PETALING JAYA: Selangor PAS has defended the decision to keep its state executive councillors in office despite the party severing its political cooperation with PKR, saying that they are following a precedent set by DAP.
Its commissioner Sallehin Mukhyi today said when DAP terminated its ties with Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in 2015 it did not require its executive councillors in Selangor to resign.
“When people were asking about this, (DAP secretary-general) Lim Guan Eng replied that DAP needed to continue being in the government so that PAS did not do a bad job,” he claimed.
“Because of that PAS needs to continue being in government and serve in the executive council so that we can do good work and DAP does not do a bad job,” he said in a statement.
Lim had on June 16, 2015, announced that the PR, which comprised DAP, PAS and PKR, had ceased to exist.
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He said PAS wants to be involved in the government to help administer with goodness and piety.
He added that the party has never engaged in conspiracy or caused disturbance to overthrow a menteri besar.
He said when other parties were conspiring to bring down then Selangor menteri besar Khalid Ibrahim in 2014, PAS did not join in.
“We acted that way not because of personal reasons but because the harmony and prosperity of the people were more important,” he said.
Sallehin added that when Khalid, who was from PKR, was eventually removed from office and Azmin Ali, the PKR deputy president, was appointed to replace him, PAS remained steadfast in not causing disruptions for the sake of the people.
He said this in responding to Selangor Umno chief Noh Omar who yesterday accused PAS of being unethical and opportunistic in refusing to resign from the executive council after breaking ties with PKR.
Noh had described the Islamist party’s excuse that it wanted to fulfil the mandate of voters who supported the party in the last general election in May 2013 as unreasonable.
He said the mandate was based on the joint manifesto by DAP, PKR and PAS headed at the state level by Khalid who has since been removed.
“If PAS accuses PKR of betraying the conditions of their ‘tahaluf siyasi’ (political cooperation), why then does it still want to be in the Selangor state government?” Noh had asked.
Likening PAS and PKR to a divorced couple that still wanted to live together, Noh said PAS was willing to be a “dayus” or unfaithful husband.
Sallehin said Noh was venting his disappointment because Umno had failed to break up the state government.
“PAS remains with the Selangor government to fulfil the obligations given by the people and because of the maturity of the state administration today,” he said.
“The difference between us is seen in the present state government’s ability to look after the welfare of the people and in delivering due service,” he added.
On May 11, PAS’ Syura Council’s endorsed the decision of the party’s muktamar (general assembly) on April 30 to end their tahaluf siyasi with PKR.
Azmin has been reported to have made it clear in a meeting with state PAS leaders on May 12 that the current executive council line-up will be kept until the upcoming 14th general election (GE14) which is due by the middle of next year.
The three PAS men in the executive council are Iskandar Samad, Ahmad Yunus Hairy and Zaidy Abdul Talib.
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