KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 — PAS President Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang will be solely responsible for his party losing big in the next national polls, Lim Kit Siang claimed today.
The DAP veteran said Abdul Hadi has allowed himself to be influenced by Umno, causing the opposition to lose votes especially among the non-Malays over the latter’s insistence on implementing Shariah penal law or hudud.
“Pakatan Rakyat (PR) would have been wiped out in the next general election if Pakatan Rakyat had contested the next polls in total disregard of the violation of the PR Common Policy Framework by PAS, making hudud a controversial issue in the election campaign,” Lim said in a statement.
“If Hadi had violated the PR Common Policy Framework before the last general election and hudud had been a controversial election issue in the 13th General Election,” he added.
Lim said PAS also stands a chance of losing in its strongholds Kelantan and Terengganu in the next elections as they have maintained slim margins that could easily swing in favour of Barisan Nasional (BN).
He stressed that it would take a mere four per cent swing in votes against PAS to knock the Islamist party out of the Kelantan — which it has ruled for over two decades — not unlike when PAS lost Terengganu in a 15 per cent swing in votes after Abdul Hadi helmed the state for one term.
Lim alleged that Umno President and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has cleverly and successfully deceived PAS by luring Abdul Hadi with hudud in order to break up the opposition coalition.
“Hadi will again by ‘played out’ by Najib in the next Parliamentary meeting as Hadi’s private member’s bill motion on hudud will not see the light of day as Najib has already achieved his objective of breaking up Pakatan Rakyat,” he said.
DAP and PAS have been at loggerheads since last year when the Islamist party tried to introduce hudud at the Kelantan State Assembly.
The feud was made worse when Hadi submitted a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament this year to pave the way for hudud in the northern state. Both parties eventually cut ties, effectively disbanding the nascent PR coalition.
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