PAS information chief Datuk Mahfuz Omar says PAS has agreed with DAP to let PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to be the new opposition leader in the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. – The Malaysian Insider pic by Seth Akmal, May 11, 2015.PAS information chief Datuk Mahfuz Omar has announced today that the Islamist party has agreed that PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail should be the opposition leader in Parliament.
This comes after the party's Pakatan Rakyat partner, DAP had backed Dr Wan Azizah for the post, a day after she won the Permatang Pauh by-election.
Mahfuz said the decision was made during a meeting, chaired by PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, last Saturday.
"The party unanimously agreed to it and the president suggested to hand the matter over to the party with the majority... And that party is DAP," he said.
"We also discussed that since DAP has stated their stand to give the post to Dr Wan Azizah, we agreed to follow Pakatan Rakyat’s earlier stance to choose the PKR president to be the opposition leader,” he told reporters at PAS headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.
Last Thursday, Dr Wan Azizah successfully retained the Permatang Pauh parliamentary seat after incumbent Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was disqualified as MP in February this year following the Federal Court's decision to uphold a second sodomy conviction, which the opposition has claimed was a political conspiracy to end his career.
Last Friday, DAP's Lim Kit Siang said his party backed Dr Wan Azizah to be the opposition leader.
"Dr Wan Azizah’s solid and impressive win in Permatang Pauh paves the way for her to be re-elected as the parliamentary opposition leader," Lim said.
Dr Wan Azizah won the Permatang Pauh by-election by an 8,841 vote majority. She polled 30,316 votes against the BN candidate, Suhaimi Sabudin, who won 21,475 votes.
- TMI
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