KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 - Leaders of Pakatan Rakyat (PR) parties will meet this weekend as cracks widened within the fledgling coalition of DAP, PKR and PAS, in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the alliance.
The PR secretariat, chaired by PAS’s vice president Salahuddin Ayub, held a meeting today in parliament and discussed issues to be tabled before its “Presidential Council” meeting.
Kampung Buah Pala, the open warfare between PAS and DAP in Kedah and the Islamist party’s proposed talks with Umno were among the issues discussed today.
PR has been rocked by the three issues, even as the alliance braces itself for Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II trial next week.
Hindraf has called for the resignation of DAP’s Lim Guan Eng as the Penang chief minister over the planned demolition of Kampung Buah Pala.
Yesterday DAP also pulled out its lone representative from the Kedah state government over the demolition of an abattoir.
PAS has also rekindled its affair with Umno, with the party’s youth wing agreeing to an “intellectual discourse” with its counterparts in the Barisan Nasional (BN) lynchpin.
Salahudin told reporters today that the problems being faced by PR was a small matter and he remained confident that they could be resolved.
“That is normal in administering a government. We understand that problems will arise if not today then tomorrow but this is a normal matter and we will able to resolve it,” Salahuddin said, referring to the DAP-PAS squabble in Kedah.
Salahuddin also stressed that the Umno-PAS unity government proposal was no longer an issue.
“No more talk about unity government. A complete full stop. No more discussion, talk or whatever names. No more,” he added.
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