PAS perlu buang segera sifat khianatnya

UMNO mungkin mempertimbangkan kerjasama semula dengan PAS sekiranya parti itu menghilangkan ‘DNA khianat’ dalam hubungan politik mereka, kata Presidennya Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Beliau mengimbau semula inisiatifnya memulakan usaha penyatuan Melayu-Islam menerusi Muafakat Nasional (MN) selepas PRU14 namun mendakwa telah dikhianati PAS.

“Tetapi DNA mereka adalah khianat. Jadi kalau mereka menghilangkan rasa khianat dalam hati, mungkin kita boleh pertimbangkan.

“Tetapi kalau khianat itu masih terus ada, saya fikir elok kita lupakan,” katanya selepas satu majlis di sini.

Zahid berkata demikian ketika diminta mengulas kenyataan Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang yang mengajak Umno ‘kembali ke pangkal jalan’ selepas didakwa tersalah memilih rakan politik dalam kerajaan perpaduan.

Dalam tulisan Minda Presiden, Ahli Parlimen Marang itu mendakwa Umno semakin lemah kerana meninggalkan asas perjuangan Islam dan Melayu selepas memilih bekerjasama dengan PKR dan DAP.

Umno kini menjadi sebahagian daripada kerajaan perpaduan dipimpin Pakatan Harapan (PH), yang turut dianggotai dua parti itu.

Beliau turut mendakwa, Umno menolak tawaran kerjasama PAS selepas PRU15 kerana bimbang parti Islam itu lebih kuat dan kononnya akan ‘membunuh’ Umno.

Menjelang PRU15, kerjasama MN terkubur antaranya disebabkan tindakan PAS menubuhkan Perikatan Nasional (PN) bersama Bersatu yang menjadi seteru Umno.

PAS must get rid of its treachery habit

UMNO will only consider working with PAS again if the latter mend their ways, says Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Ahmad Zahid said he was also the one who first began Muafakat Nasional.

The now-defunct Muafakat, which was widely known as a loose political pact between Umno and PAS, was formed in 2019.

It went sour after the latter joined Bersatu in the Perikatan Nasional collaboration.

“If they mend their ways, then perhaps we can consider. If they stay the way they are, being treachery, however, it’s best to forget about it,” he told reporters here on Thursday (May 7).

Earlier, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang called on Umno to reflect and “return to the right path” after allegedly choosing the wrong political partners.

He said PAS and Umno were not very different in their fundamental Islamic struggle, although they differed in their interpretations and approaches.

He added that while both parties previously cooperated on issues involving Islam, Malay interests, and national security, Umno rejected PAS’s offer to work together after the 15th general election.

At the Umno general assembly earlier this year, Ahmad Zahid also said Umno wants to form a grand collaboration to unite all Malay Muslim political parties nationwide under one roof.

The Umno president stressed that it has no intention to topple the current unity government.

“The aim of this grand collaboration is to truly unite the spirit of Malay and Muslim parties within a larger framework,” he said.

He also said the sole purpose is to reflect Umno’s commitment to bring together all Muslim parties and advance the Malay and Islamic agenda.

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