GUAN ENG GIVES IT TO PAS ULAMA: Don't play-play when you make decisions

KUALA LUMPUR - PAS should have the guts to begin the next step after supposedly deciding to sever its ties with DAP, says the secular party’s secretary-general Lim Guan Eng.

The Penang Chief Minister also said as experienced politicians, PAS leaders should be able to differentiate the difference between the word “passed” and “referred to”.

Lim was commenting on PAS leaders’ decision on Saturday to pass without debate its ulama council’s motion to end its relationship with DAP.

While the motion was passed, the final say would be made by the Islamist party’s Syura Council and its central committee.

“We are all experienced politicians. Don’t play-play when we make decisions. If you want to run a government, you have to have certainty and consistency.

“Hold onto your principles; say what you mean and mean what you say,” added Lim at a press conference at the Parliament lobby here today.

He told PAS leaders to show they have some dignity and get its representatives in the Penang government to relinquish their posts, in line with the Islamist-based party’s decision.

PAS, the Bagan lawmaker said, had the right and freedom to make such decision, but it must now command its representatives to resign.

“I am Penang’s Chief Minister and they have to serve under the directives of the CM,” he said, alluding to the PAS representatives.

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Lim also said that the positions vacated by PAS representatives in the state government will be filled by no other races but the Malays.

He went on to “salute” PAS’ former deputy president Mohamad Sabu for volunteering to step down from positions held in Penang, during the party’s annual muktamar last Saturday.

Mohamad Sabu presently sits on the boards of the Penang Water Corporation and Penang Halal Hub.

DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang, who was also present at the press conference, added to this, saying that Pakatan Rakyat was killed by PAS’ new leadership dominated by the clerics (ulama).

“Is it possible to bring back the dead? There has been no reaffirmation to the common policy of Pakatan Rakyat.” - Therakyatpost