KUALA LUMPUR: The DAP’s Lim Kit Siang, while urging party members to move on from the Pakatan Rakyat crisis, has accused PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang of having “single-handedly destroyed” the coalition with his actions over the past year.
He took issue with Hadi’s statement on Friday that Pakatan Rakyat was not dead, and that the DAP should understand the meaning of the pact between PAS, DAP and PKR.
Speaking in his constituency of Gelang Patah in Johor, Lim said Hadi had violated the Pakatan’s common policy framework and the coalition’s principle of decisions by consensus, which had been the Pakatan’s pillars without which there could be no Pakatan Rakyat.
He said the Pakatan Rakyat Leadership Council had not been able to function for the past year as a result of Hadi’s actions. Pakatan Rakyat had existed only in name. Hadi had either refused to attend the leadership meeting or vetoed decisions arrived at by consensus of leaders of the three parties who attended. He had also refused to honour undertakings he made at the Leadership Council, Lim said.
He urged party members to move on from the rift and keep faith with the hopes of Malaysians for change at the next general election.