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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Pakatan leaders to meet in January over Kelantan PAS’s hudud push

Pakatan Rakyat’s top leaders will meet in January to discuss PAS's move to implement hudud in Kelantan. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, December 20, 2014.Pakatan Rakyat’s top leaders will meet in January to discuss PAS's move to implement hudud in Kelantan. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, December 20, 2014.
The Pakatan Rakyat (PR) presidential council will meet in January to discuss PAS's move to implement hudud in Kelantan, PKR deputy president Mohamaed Azmin Ali said today.
Any move that concerned the opposition pact's common stand on issues must be decided collectively, he said.
"Pakatan's position on hudud has been clear from the start. But with regard to this latest move, we first have to see the draft of the amendment as stressed by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim," Azmin said, referring to the opposition leader.
Once passed at the state level, PAS will table a private member's bill in the Dewan Rakyat at its next sitting that will pave the way for Kelantan to implement the Muslim penal code.
Azmin did not state this own stand on the matter but stressed that it was an issue PR had to discuss collectively.
He was asked to respond to Gerakan's secretary-general Liang Teck Meng who urged the 18 Muslim MPs in PKR and DAP to vote against the private member's bill when it is brought to the Dewan Rakyat.
PKR has 16 Muslim MPs, while two of DAP's 37 MPs are Muslims.
"This is not a question of my own position but of PR's collective stance on any proposal raised by any party within PR, which has to be discussed by the presidential council which will meet in January," Azmin, who is also the Selangor Menteri Besar, told the press after an event in Puchong today.
The 18 Muslim MPs in PKR and DAP have been dubbed the "magic 18" by Liang, whose party is a component member of the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN).
The private member's bill will need a simple majority of 112 MPs supporting it in order for it to be passed.
Umno has 88 MPs, of which all, with the exception of deputy speaker Datuk Ronald Kiandee, are Muslims.
PAS holds 21 seats in Parliament and their combined force would still be short of four seats for the bill to pass.
Yesterday, PKR's Muslim MPs interviewed by The Malaysian Insider refused to say whether they would vote against the bill, but some said that as Muslims they could not reject it outright either.
PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli said the party would only make a stand on the issue once it saw a draft of the bill.
“It is premature for me to comment on this. If there is a draft of the bill, we want to see it first. Then we will bring the matter up for discussion at the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) presidential council," Rafizi said yesterday.
The DAP also reacted to Liang's urging by asking Gerakan to first persuade Umno not to support such a bill.
DAP's Bukit Bendera MP Zairil Khir Johari said the party consistently opposed hudud.
"DAP’s stand has been very clear from the beginning and Gerakan should ask those in Umno to stand with us,” Zairil said in Penang yesterday.
- TMI

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