With Pakatan fractured, PasMa mulls becoming a political party, says report
(The Malaysian Insider) – Pro-Pakatan Rakyat (PR) movement Persatuan Ummah Sejahtera Malaysia (PasMa) has plans to become a political party so that it can formally join the opposition pact, The Star Online reported its president saying.
Datuk Phahrolrazi Mohd Zawawi told the portal that PasMa’s members, who are also members of PR component party PAS, were “strongly urging” for the group to join the pact.
“Our members have high hopes of PasMa becoming a component party of Pakatan,” he was quoted as saying, but added that a study would first have to be carried on as PR was currently “not stable”.
He said for now PasMa was still a non-governmental organisation.
His remarks come at a time when PR is fractured over Kelantan PAS’s efforts to implement hudud, the Islamic penal code, in the state.
DAP is still in PR but has cut ties with PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang after the Kelantan legislature passed amendments to its 1993 hudud law and after Hadi moved to inform Parliament that he will table a private member’s bill to amend a federal law to allow hudud to be enforced.
In Sarawak and Sabah, DAP and PAS at the state level are no longer working together.
