Parti Keadilan Rakyat will try to mediate between feuding coalition partners PAS and DAP to convince them of the need to keep the Pakatan Rakyat together, PKR president and Opposition leader Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said today.
She said after an internal party meeting that the results of the 2013 general election showed that Malaysians wanted a two-party system.
“In our mind, we have to be a two-party system, which is good for the country,” she said, quoted by Malay Mail Online. “Now we want the concept of Pakatan to hold on. We, as PKR, want to show that we can work together.”
The PKR leadership meeting today discussed the future of Pakatan Rakyat.
The running disputes between DAP and PAS have led both parties to sever relationships with each other while remaining within the Pakatan coalition.
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang criticised the DAP for its long-running opposition towards Islamic law and particularly for campaigning against Hadi’s motion to amend federal law to allow hudud criminal penalties to be enforced in Kelantan.
Hadi has also criticised PKR for siding with the DAP on the issue.
However the DAP has accused PAS of going along with Umno’s blandishments of a unity government and promises to support hudud.
The DAP has declared it would no longer deal with PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang personally, while PAS at its general assembly on Saturday adopted a motion to sever links with the DAP. The PAS motion has still to be approved by the party’s supreme decision-making bodies, the Shura council and the central working committee, however, DAP leaders have declared that its adoption by the general assembly spelled the end of the Pakatan.
FMT