PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said his complaint about Umno breaching the Muafakat Nasional charter was not directed at the party as a whole but at certain individuals.
He said the Muafakat charter was to unite Malay Muslims and this must include Bersatu, a splinter party which Umno has refused to work with.
"I did not say it was Umno (that breached the charter). I said there are people who have breached the charter. Not Umno, not in the name of the party.
"The Umno supreme council is not one person. There are many of them. Umno is a collective and does not function as an individual," Hadi (above) told a press conference after an event for religious teachers in Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, yesterday.
Muafakat was a pact between Umno and PAS formed in 2019. It was intended as a political alliance for the next general election.
However, after Bersatu quit Pakatan Harapan and roped in PAS and Umno to form the federal government, PAS drifted closer to Bersatu.
'I'm just shooting in the dark'
Asked who he was referring to, Hadi refused to disclose who in Umno he was taking issue with.
"I'm not accusing anyone. I'm just shooting in the dark, if it hits someone, then it hits someone," he said.
Hadi, who is the Marang MP, was also asked if he has a cold relationship with Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Responding to this, he maintained that their relationship remains warm, citing his seating proximity with Zahid in the Dewan Rakyat.
Hadi also stressed that the Muafakat charter is still alive.
He added that PAS will await Umno's course of action next year.
Umno is expected to hold its annual general assembly for 2021 in January next year.
Zahid is pushing Umno and BN to go in alone in the next general election.
Umno has been open to working with PAS on the condition that PAS ditches Bersatu, something that the Islamist party has refused to do. - Mkini
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