DAP’s secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said the party had lost trust and confidence in PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang as a Pakatan Rakyat leader and will end ties and cease to work with him.

He said as Abdul Hadi is the PAS leader in PR, DAP’s decision to end all ties with Hadi will effectively put the Pakatan Rakyat Leadership Council in limbo.

“DAP will meet the PKR leadership to discuss the future course of Pakatan Rakyat,” he said in a press statement.

Lim also reminded Hadi that those who voted for PAS in the last general election, did not vote for the implementation of hudud but for the Common Policy Framework.

He said DAP opposes the implementation of hudud laws because it is unconstitutional and all its 37 MPs will oppose the Private Member’s Bill on hudud submitted by Abdul Hadi.

“DAP deplores the dishonest and dishonourable acts of Abdul Hadi of co-operating with UMNO to violate this spirit of consensus as well as the Common Policy Framework that has jeopardised Pakatan Rakyat,” he said in a press statement.

“DAP is unable to work with a PAS President like Hadi Awang who persists in such dishonest and dishonourable acts,” he said.


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Reaffirming the party’s commitment to PR, Lim also called on its allies to adhere to the spirit of the Common Policy Framework operating through the spirit of consensus centred on trust and mutual respect in PR Leadership Council.

Lim also accused UMNO of instigating PAS to implement hudud laws in Kelantan on 27 March 2014 in Parliament by promising Federal Government support.

DAP urges the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak not to make any further delays in making a clear and unequivocal stand on whether to oppose or support the hudud enactment in Kelantan, as well as clarify the role of UMNO Kelantan State Assemblymen in supporting the hudud bill.

“Najib must also declare whether he supports the Private Member’s Bill tabled by Hadi,” he said.


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