PAS: DAP can't ‘cut ties with head, but not the tail’

DAP cannot maintain its cooperation with PAS while severing ties with party president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.

PAS’ Kota Raja MP Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud said it was strange for DAP to “sever ties with the head, but not the tail”.

“This is news to me. I don’t know. It’s quite difficult to sever ties with the head, and yet you want to continue with the tail,” she told reporters on Tuesday.

She added it would create a “dilemma” within the pact, and that it required further discussion among party leaders.

Parit Buntar MP Mujahid Yusof Rawa noted that despite DAP’s decision, the parties could still work “within the framework of Pakatan Rakyat”.

“Regardless of any doing of a PAS leader, we are still in that framework. If there’s one or two leaders in PAS that DAP does not like, this does not mean the whole organisation will be in jeopardy,” he said.

Earlier Pasir MAS MP Nik Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz has said that DAP could not single out a single person.

“They can’t single out one person in the party because Hadi represents PAS in Pakatan Rakyat. What they say has a double meaning.

“From what I understand from this is, they want to pressure PAS from within to reject Hadi. I want DAP to explain this further,” he said.