YOURSAY | PAS wants to have its cake and eat it too

YOURSAY | 'It fears losing seats facing Umno in elections.'

PAS Syura Council stresses importance of Muafakat and PN

BobbyO: PAS is worried that Umno might sweep even Kelantan, seeing how they got rejected in Malacca and Sarawak.

Now, they fear that they will lose many more seats as they will be facing Umno and the opposition in the next elections. As a result, they may lose the lucrative positions that they hold at the federal level.

They have always used the unity of Muslims as an excuse to gain power. One day, they are hoping they can replace Umno and Bersatu at the federal level.

The sad fact is they have failed big time in ruling Kelantan. Their ministers are clueless as to how to run a ministry.

Yet, they are sitting in their lucrative positions enjoying the perks and benefits while the ummah (Muslim community) is suffering out there - firstly from the Covid crisis and now the floods.

Kingfisher1974: It is clear that PAS is afraid of committing to either Perikatan Nasional (PN) or Umno. If either PN or Umno wins, they hope to be appointed to positions of power in the state governments and the federal cabinet.

This is unethical, unprincipled, clearly a conflict of interest. Their objective is selfish, for personal gain of wealth and power.

Umno and PN are really blind and stupid to allow a ‘parasitic’ party to take advantage of them.

This party regularly parades their incompetence, divisiveness, and complete lack of contribution to the national good, national integration and national unity. They have a complete lack of management ability.

Besides knowing how to ban 4D and alcohol, and issuing nonsensical statements about enemies of their religion, they have done nothing good. Yes, nothing.

Worse of all, the recent statement by one of them appears to challenge the Selangor sultan's decree. It looks like this party does not respect the royalty too.

NoobMaster69: PAS was busy kissing former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s hands when he was in power. When PN was in power, they were busy kissing then prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s hands while barking at Umno.

Now that PN and BN are sharing power, PAS is busy kissing both party’s hands. At the end of the day, they just kiss whichever hand gives them Mercedes.

They really have no shame. Where’s your loyalty, PAS? Or do you need DAP to teach you about loyalty?

Iphonezours: PAS, just be truthful. You are not fighting for Malay-Muslim unity but your future in the federal government.

After tasting power at the federal level, you are scared that when Umno and Bersatu fight head-on, the biggest losers will be PAS.

You also know that PAS’ dismal performance in the federal government and in the response/rescue efforts in the recent floods have put off many Malaysians, especially the Malays.

FairMalaysian: For Bersatu, the targeted rival was and is Umno. In fact, before GE14, Bersatu was supposed to take on both Umno and PAS. It was primarily working to replace Umno.

However, it grossly failed to achieve any of that and suffered from an inferiority complex as being the party lagging behind PKR and DAP in the Pakatan Harapan coalition.

A number of politicians who won under the Umno/BN ticket then ‘frogged’ to Bersatu, while Bersatu left the Harapan coalition for what it claimed to be Malay unity.

Much of that claim has been demystified when Umno brought down Muhyiddin’s government. Their primary desire to be together is actually to deny Harapan the driver's seat of the country.

Elated by the Malacca results, and its past nightmares with Bersatu, Umno still may feel threatened by Bersatu and may feel that PAS has backstabbed it.

For PAS, it can forget about being in the government if Bersatu and Umno are looking in different directions. More than its concern of Malay unity, it is worried about its exit from Putrajaya.

OCT: Are there any countries with religion as its basis to govern that has ever succeeded? Here in Malaysia, PAS thinks it is the party that can be everything for all Muslims.

PAS thinks too highly of themselves that they can solve all the problems and differences for all rakyat in Malaysia. Just look at the affairs of the states in which PAS governs. That will tell the rakyat how successful they have been.

PAS wants every Muslim party to come together as one as if PAS is the de facto party to play the mastermind role.

PAS forgets managing and governing a country are so much more different than practising religion.

Umno doesn't need PAS to survive but PAS needs Umno to survive. That is the crux of the matter.

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