By Adib Zalkapli - The Malaysian InsiderKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22 — PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said today the formal registration of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition is in the hands of the government.
His statement was made to clear the confusion over his remarks last Sunday which suggested that PAS was unwilling to be part of a formal coalition.
“The formation of the Pakatan Rakyat party as agreed mutually by all PR members cannot be formalised as it is still under the consideration of the Registrar of Societies (RoS),” said Hadi (picture) in a one-paragraph statement made through his political secretary Dr Samsuri Mokhtar.
On Sunday, Hadi had suggested that the PR coalition was in no hurry to be formally registered, in remarks that appear to indicate PAS’s ideological differences with its political partners remained an obstacle.
“We do not want to act in a hurry to register Pakatan,” Hadi had said.
“Pakatan does not necessarily have to become a single party. What is important is for us to bring out what we have in common, and to put off things which we do not agree on,” he was quoted as saying after a special meeting with political bloggers yesterday.
Hadi’s remarks came just a day after the PR coalition held its first-ever convention. A common policy framework was also tabled at the convention.
Yesterday, opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said Hadi might have been misunderstood as the Marang MP had consented to the formation of the PR.
Anwar claimed that Hadi’s contention was that the detailed plans of the formalisation had not been agreed to yet and would take time.
The application to register PR was made in early November and Datuk Zaid Ibrahim was named the coalition chairman.
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