PETALING JAYA: PAS information chief Ahmad Fadhli Shaari has rubbished claims that the party is coveting top posts in Perikatan Nasional (PN), saying it never demanded the chairmanship despite having the lion’s share of parliamentary seats.
In a Facebook post, Fadhli said if the party was power-hungry, it would have also ensured that one of its MPs was made the opposition leader.
“If PAS was indeed ‘greedy’, we would never have made way for others to be appointed as the opposition leader,” he said.
Bersatu deputy president Hamzah Zainudin is the current opposition leader while party president Muhyiddin Yassin was the PN chairman until his resignation which took effect on Jan 1.
Fadhli was responding to a Berita Harian article quoting an anonymous source from Bersatu as criticising the Islamic party for not inviting Muhyiddin to a PN meeting.
The source also accused PAS of being “greedy” for top posts in the coalition.
In his post today, Fadhli also singled out several Bersatu leaders, including information chief Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz, whom he said had constantly bad-mouthed the Islamic party.
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