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SINGAPORE: Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) has pledged “absolute loyalty” to the leadership of Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin in a statement released on Tuesday morning (October 27).
PAS Secretary General Takiyuddin Hassan said in the statement: “PAS wants to pledge absolute loyalty to the leadership of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, and would like to emphasize that the 18 Members of Parliament (MP) of PAS support the government of Perikatan Nasional (PN ) “. . ”
Takiyuddin also urged MPs from his ally, the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, to “defend the leadership” of Muhyiddin and the PN government.
The Islamist party has formally joined the PN coalition, which was founded with the shared goal of overthrowing the Pakatan Harapan government earlier this year.
It is also part of the Muafakat Nasional alliance with the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), which was forged in September last year to focus on Malaysian-Muslim issues.
The PAS statement was released hours after UMNO, the largest component of the BN coalition, declared after its supreme council meeting that it would maintain its support for the Muhyiddin government. UMNO also stressed that it would not cooperate with Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and the Democratic Action Party (DAP).
The UMNO is the largest party in the current ruling PN bloc, with 39 of the 222 seats in parliament. He had previously agitated for a more favorable redistribution of government positions for the party’s MPs, while opposition leader and PKR chief Anwar Ibrahim claimed that he has the majority to become prime minister.
Last week, Muhyiddin asked Malaysian King Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah to declare a state of emergency amid the COVID-19 crisis and political instability, which would have seen the next parliamentary meeting suspended. .
This was rejected by the king after consulting the Malay Ruling Council on Sunday.
Opposition parties such as PKR and DAP have indicated that they would heed the king’s royal decree, which urged politicians to stop any politicking that could disrupt the government’s stability.
The national budget, which will be presented on November 6, “is very important for people in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and reviving the country’s economy,” the king had said.
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DAP VETERAN CALLS FOR POLITICAL RECONCILIATION
On Tuesday morning, veteran DAP leader Lim Kit Siang issued a statement urging that talks on “political reconciliation” and “national unity” be put into practice as the country continues to grapple with the growing cases. of COVID-19.
“We have wasted two days and shouldn’t waste any more time to focus and forge an ‘whole government’ and ‘whole society’ mindset and approach in the war against the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia,” he said.
“We will do a disservice to the leaders who risked their health and lives to fight the COVID-19 pandemic,” he added.
Malaysia reported 1,240 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, the country’s biggest daily jump since the start of the pandemic, bringing the total to 27,805 infections.
