Langkah Hadi...

Kandungan dua surat daripada PAS yang menggariskan senarai calon berbeza untuk calon menteri besar Selangor menimbulkan kemarahan dari sebilangan anggota parti Islam itu.

Tindakan mengemukakan surat tersebut, yang digelar sebagai “Langkah Hadi”, dilihat “mengingkari” keputusan jawatankuasa pusatnya.

Parti tersebut sebelum ini berkali-kali menafikan bahawa ia berhasrat untuk mengemukakan pemimpin PAS ke jawatan tersebut, bagi menghormati hak PKR ke atas jawatan berkenaan.

Namun, satu surat daripada pejabat Hadi itu langsung tidak menamakan sebarang ADUN PKR dalam senarai berkenaan yang seterusnya dihantar ke Istana.

Senarai itu mencalonkan tiga Exco PAS iaitu Iskandar Ab Samad, Sallehin Mukhyi dan Dr Ahmad Yunus Hairi dihantar secara rahsia pada awal pagi Rabu tanpa pengetahuan jawatankuasa pusat dan PAS Selangor sendiri.

"Saya tidak tahu langsung tentang perkembangan ini. Saya hanya dapat tahu melalui berita di dalam  Internet," kata Iskandar kepada Malaysiakini.

Malah, timbalan Hadi, Mohamad Sabu juga menegaskan beliau dan pimpinan Pusat PAS tidak tahu menahu langsung berkenaan perkara ini.

"Kami, AJK PAS Pusat tidak tahu menahu akan nama baru ini kerana ia tidak diputuskan dalam mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Kerja PAS Pusat sebagai badan eksekutif yang mengendalikan urusan harian pentadbiran dan strategi parti," katanya dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.

Malaysiakini difahamkan surat itu dihantar ke istana oleh seorang exco Pemuda PAS yang "rapat" dengan Hadi, dengan ditemani seorang kerabat diraja Selangor yang mengetuai satu syarikat GLC negeri itu.

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Beberapa sumber memberitahu Malaysiakini, seorang pimpinan kanan PAS yang terlibat langsung dalam perkara ini naik berang dan meminta pejabat presidennya menarik kembali senarai itu dan menghantar senarai baru.

Perkembangan itu menunjukkan PAS seolah-olah berjaya menyelesaikan satu satu krisis.

Setiausaha Agung PAS Datuk Mustafa Ali kemudiannya dilaporkan mengakui bahawa pelan asal parti itu adalah untuk menghantar nama tiga ADUN PAS sahaja.

Beliau seterusnya menjelaskan bahawa PAS “membetulkan” perkara tersebut melalui senarai kedua yang dihantar kepada istana Selangor.

Senarai baru yang mengandungi nama dua ADUN PKR dan satu ADUN PAS itu dihantar beberapa jam selepas itu.

Mustafa bagaimanapun enggan mendedahkan nama ADUN dalam senarai baru tersebut.

Beberapa lagi sumber yang berkenaan memberitahu Malaysiakini bahawa senarai nama baru itu tidak mengandungi nama presiden PKR Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail dan timbalannya Azmin Ali.

Ia bertentangan dengan keputusan mesyuarat Jawatankuasa Pusat PAS pada 17 Ogos lalu.

Pejabat Hadi menyenaraikan nama pilihan mereka sendiri iaitu ADUN Ijok Idris Ahmad dan bekas Exco Selangor Yaakob Sapari sebagai calon dan nama pesuruhjaya PAS Selangor, Iskandar.

PKR dan DAP bagaimanapun hanya menghantar satu nama - Wan Azizah walau Sultan Selangor menitahkan agar parti dalam Pakatan Rakyat mengemukakan lebih daripada dua nama.

Biarpun Hadi mungkin tidak memainkan peranan aktif dalam hal ini, perkara ini dilihat dilakukan dari pejabat beliau, atau individu dari pejabat beliau, akan mengaitkan dirnya sendiri sebagai presiden parti.

Pengingkaran terhadap badan pembuat keputusan eksekutif PAS sendiri akan menjejaskan hubungan Hadi dengan barisan pimpinan tinggi lain menjelang muktamar tahunan parti itu.

Muktamar tersebut dijadualkan berlangsung di Johor bermula 18 hingga 21 September ini.

Ini turut menambah pergeseran antara pemimpin pro-Pakatan Rakyat dalam PAS dan pimpinan konservatif yang dibarisi golongan ulama – kebanyakannya dari Kelantan dan Terengganu.- mk

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Before PAS leaders could even reel from the confusion that the Islamic party has submitted two name lists to the Selangor palace for the post of menteri besar, this puzzlement quickly turned into shock and outrage when the contents of the list came to light.

In what has now come to be known as the "Hadi Move", PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's office defying the party's central committee decision, submitted its own list of candidates to replace Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, who has lost the state assembly's majority support.

Going against the Islamic party's repeated insistence that it was not coveting the menteri besar position and respected PKR's prerogative to nominate its candidate, Hadi's office omitted PKR from the first list submitted to the palace.

Instead, the list contained three PAS executive council members - namely Iskandar Ab Samad (left), Sallehen Mukhyi and Ahmad Yunus Hairi - which was secretly sent to the palace on Wednesday without the party central committee or Selangor PAS' knowledge.

"I do not know at all about this development, I only knew it from the Internet," Iskandar, who is Selangor PAS commissioner," told Malaysiakini.

Even PAS' deputy president claimed he has no knowledge of the candidates apart from the two names decided at the party's Aug 17 meeting.

Mohamad Sabu (right) said the PAS central committee has no knowledge of the three names, including PAS' own, as reported in the media.

"The PAS central committee has no knowledge of any new names because it was not decided at the central committee meeting," he said in a statement today.

Malaysiakini understands the letter was submitted to the palace by a PAS Youth exco member who is close to Hadi and that he was accompanied by a member of the Selangor royal family who heads a government-linked company in the state.

Sources told Malaysiakini that when a senior PAS leader who is in charge of the matter caught wind of this, was enraged and demanded that the party president's office withdraw the letter and resubmit a new one.

 Hadi's office complied with this demand, in what seemingly was a crisis averted.

PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali reportedly admitted that there was an initial plan to submit the names of PAS candidates only, but stressed that the matter had been rectified with the second letter to the Selangor palace.

Another defiant move

The new list contained the names of two PKR assemblypersons and one PAS assemblyperson, and was sent hours after the first.

But later, Mustafa (right) refused to confirm to the media the names in the new list, seemingly sensing that something was amiss.

Well-placed sources told Malaysiakini that the list omitted the names of PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and her deputy, Azmin Ali', whom the PAS central committee had endorsed for the post of menteri besar on Aug 17.

Instead, Hadi's office named Idris Ahmad and Yaakob Sapari as candidates, as well as PAS' own Iskandar.

Both PKR and DAP have only nominated Wan Azizah as their chosen candidate despite the palace's insistence for more than two names from each of the three Pakatan parties.

While Hadi may not necessarily have played an active hand in these manoeuvrings, the fact that this came from his own office, or people within his office, will reflect on him.

The apparent open defiance of PAS' own executive decision-making body is set to put Hadi on collision course with his top lieutenants ahead of the party's muktamar or general assembly, due to take place in Johor from Sept 18 to 20.

However, PAS’ Syura Council today admitted to overturning the central committee’s decision.

“Yes, it’s correct. The the Syura Council decided on the (new) names.

“The Syura council is the highest decision-making body,” Syura Council secretary Nik Muhammad Zawawi Nik Salleh told Malaysiakini.

This is likely to deepen the rift between pro-Pakatan Rakyat leaders in PAS and their conservative counterparts consisting of clerics, most based in Kelantan and Terengganu.

For Pakatan, it was déjà vu as Hadi and the Syura Council had single-handedly reset two months of progress in attempting to resolve the Selangor crisis.

The Pakatan leadership council, which also comprises senior PAS representatives, had on July 23 decided to nominate Wan Azizah as the new Selangor menteri besar.

Crack appearing in PAS, PKR

However, Hadi unilaterally backed Khalid to stay on, opening a can of worms which was thought to have been resolved on Aug 17 after the PAS central committee declared it was withdrawing support for Khalid and would back Wan Azizah and Azmin.

But Hadi's second rebuff of the Pakatan leadership decision, and this time his party's own central committee in submitting another list of menteri besar candidates to the palace, has even prompted a senior PKR leader, who did not want to be named, to question whether they were being "played out" by PAS.

Several PKR leaders have issued angry statements after a four-hour politburo meeting last night, with PKR Youth chief Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad (left) demanding answers from PAS.

"It is important for the people of Selangor to get an explanation so that the confusion and questions can be answered," Nik Nazmi said.

The 'Hadi Move' has not only created cracks in Pakatan but the the protracted Selangor crisis is also beginning to show fault lines in PKR.

PKR has seen a leadership transition after its party election and a majority of the new central leadership council members  seemed to be aligned to Azmin.

Azmin’s supporters had previously attempted to push for him to become menteri besar but this move was shot down during the previous leadership, which insisted on Wan Azizah.

Azmin himself has pledged support for Wan Azizah but if the stalemate prolongs, the new PKR leadership may be inclined to revive the idea of Azmin as menteri besar, thereby threatening PKR with its own split.

The 'Hadi Move' has moved beyond the survival of the Pakatan coalition and is now threatening to destabilise both PAS and PKR.- mk

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