Datuk Amirudin Hamzah is the next PAS leader to relinquish his post as the Islamist party’s chief in Kedah.
According to sources, Amirudin turned down the appointment in a letter sent to the party headquarters.
He is a former central committee, having lost at the recent party elections earlier this month when PAS delegates voted in candidates from the pro-ulama faction.
Amirudin and others who lost were appointed to positions at the first meeting of the PAS central committee after the elections and muktamar, or annual congress
He was given the leadership of Kedah PAS, replacing Datuk Mahfuz Omar.
This makes him the second person to reject a leadership position in the party, after Mazlan Aliman announced earlier today that he would let go of his seat in the central committee.
Mazlan was the only member of the so-called “progressive” faction in PAS who won in the polls.
Amirudin, too, is considered part of this faction, dubbed progressive because of their more open stance towards non-Muslims and abiding by the common policies of the opposition pact Pakatan Rakyat.
PAS has been in a state of uncertainty following its annual congress, where its leaders forced through a motion to cut ties with DAP without debate by the floor.
The passing of the motion led to two progressive leaders Datuk Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa and former deputy president Mohamad Sabu to quit their positions in the DAP-led Penang government agencies.
PAS leaders are now saying that the motion is not a final decision, and still has to be vetted by the Shura council of scholars and clerics. – June 15, 2015.
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