Baseless to say Wawasan controls PN’s decisions, says Wan Fayhsal

 The Wawasan information chief calls the accusation by Bersatu vice-president Ahmad Faizal Azumu the ‘ravings’ of ‘someone who has clearly lost support in PN’.

Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal said relations between PN’s component parties were good, except with Bersatu as it had frequently gone against decisions made by the coalition’s leaders.

PETALING JAYA:

A Wawasan leader has described as “baseless” Bersatu vice-president Ahmad Faizal Azumu’s accusation that Wawasan “controls” or influences all decisions made by the Perikatan Nasional leadership.

Pointing out that his party was much smaller than PAS, Wawasan information chief Wan Ahmad Fayhsal Wan Ahmad Kamal called the accusation the “ravings” of “someone who has clearly lost support in PN”.

“I do not understand how he could have made such a claim,” he told FMT.

Wan Fayhsal said PN’s component parties have good relations, except with Bersatu, which had frequently gone against decisions made by the coalition’s leaders.

He said PAS’s claim that Bersatu had automatically ceased to be part of PN after announcing plans to form a new political coalition was evident in itself.

“It’s like that idiom, ‘Hidung tak mancung, pipi tersorong-sorong’,” he said, using a Malay idiom referring to someone who pushes themselves forward despite being unwelcome.

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang previously claimed that under the PN constitution, any party that chooses to join or form another alliance would automatically lose its membership.

However, PN chairman Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar later said that Bersatu remained a component of the coalition. - FMT