BOMBSHELL – ‘SHARIAH-COMPLIANT’ SNAKE OR NOT, HADI BACKSTABS MAHATHIR – WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FOR PM IN EVENT OF NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE: ‘IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO IS PM – AS LONG AS HE IS MUSLIM & IMPLEMENTS ISLAM,’ SAYS PAS CHIEF – EVEN AS HE WARNS AGAIN OF REVOLT

A CONFLICT in Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s cabinet will trigger a vote of no-confidence against the prime minister, said PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.

The Marang MP, however, declined to reveal who in the cabinet or Pakatan Harapan led by Dr Mahathir will table such a motion.

“Those who want to bring a no-confidence vote (against Dr Mahathir) is not PAS. Not us. Someone else wants to bring a vote of no-confidence. There is a conflict in the prime minister’s cabinet,” Hadi said at a dialogue session in Universiti Malaya last night.

Hadi also refused to elaborate further on who these parties are when approached later by the media.

Last month, PAS said there is a plot to table a motion of no-confidence against Dr Mahathir in the Dewan Rakyat. The Islamist party said it would back Dr Mahathir if such an act were to occur.

Hadi and other PAS senior leaders made this pledge in a meeting with Dr Mahathir ahead of the Semenyih by-election.

Critics then accused PAS of being insincere towards the prime minister as the Islamist party then went on to campaign for Barisan Nasional in the by-election against Dr Mahathir’s coalition, PH.

Senior PH leaders have also denied that there is any such plot to topple Dr Mahathir, who is the pact’s chairman.

At the dialogue session yesterday, Hadi said the public would have to wait and see whether a no-confidence vote materialises in the current parliamentary session which is slated to end on April 11.

However, PAS will support whichever candidate as prime minister as long as the person is a Muslim who governed according to Islamic principles and who cared for the nation’s future.

“The candidate for prime minister, we want someone who implements Islam. So to us it does not matter who is the prime minister and we shall see how far this vote of no-confidence goes.” 

THE MALAYSIAN INSIGHT