BATU PAHAT: PAS’ legal bureau chairman Mohamed Hanipa Maidin (pic) was booed and jeered for passionately urging the party to reject the appointment of its assemblyman as the new Selangor Mentri Besar next week.
In his winding-up speech on the last day of PAS’ 60th Muktamar (annual gathering) here, the Sepang MP did not mince his words that the party would suffer dire consequences if it accepted the post.
“You can boo and jeer as loud as you want. I do not care.
“These are the realities based on facts,” said Mohamed Hanipa Saturday, who is the chairman of legal and human rights bureau (Luham).
He then outlined two reasons if the party went ahead to accept the post - PAS would be accused of breaking its promise that the post belongs to PKR and the possibility of the party forming a weak government.
“If you think you can handle that and accept the post, but do you think you can form a majority government that is not fragile?” he asked.
At this point, Mohamed Hanipa retorted that his argument was based on facts and that the crowd could boo as long as they wanted.
“Go ahead and boo all you want. I am arguing based on facts not on shouts,” he said, adding that this could also result in snap polls.
Earlier, the practicing lawyer was also booed when he defended the legal bureau’s views on the president’s veto power and the Syura Ulama council’s interpretation of it under the party constitution.
He insisted that based on the amendments to the party constitution on 1983, the party president had no veto power.
“However, I do not deny that the president can make his own decision but it has to be in the spirit of the constitution where he needs to refer to the central committee,” he said, to boos and jeers by the delegates and observers.
The deputy permanent chairman Hussein Ismail then called for calm.
- source Star online
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