PKR and DAP meanwhile are maintaining their decision to go with a sole candidate - Wan Azizah.
SHAH ALAM: The Selangor palace has received the names of three potential candidates for the post of Menteri Besar from PAS, according to a palace source.
The three candidates are reportedly Iskandar Abdul Samad, Sallehen Mukhyi and Dr Ahmad Yunus Hairi.
However, all three have denied any knowledge of the matter.
“The correspondence was handled personally by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang,” said the source.
Meanwhile, PKR and DAP are maintaining their decision of wanting only Wan Azizah to be the sole candidate for the post.
PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu said he was unsure whether the names of Wan Azizah and PKR deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali were not on the list sent to the palace.
“We, the members of the PAS central committee, have no knowledge of the fresh names because that was not decided at the meeting of the committee on Aug 17,” he said in a statement.
On Aug 26, the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, had decreed that the three parties making up the Pakatan Rakyat pact – DAP, PKR and PAS – submit more than two names to be considered for the post of MB.
The sultan requested the names after deferring the acceptance of the resignation of Khalid Ibrahim until a new MB was appointed to replace him.
Khalid had initially refused to step down as MB in defiance of a PKR and Pakatan Rakyat decision to do so to pave the way for PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to take over the post.
He was sacked from PKR for his persistence in staying on.
The three candidates are reportedly Iskandar Abdul Samad, Sallehen Mukhyi and Dr Ahmad Yunus Hairi.
However, all three have denied any knowledge of the matter.
“The correspondence was handled personally by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang,” said the source.
Meanwhile, PKR and DAP are maintaining their decision of wanting only Wan Azizah to be the sole candidate for the post.
PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu said he was unsure whether the names of Wan Azizah and PKR deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali were not on the list sent to the palace.
“We, the members of the PAS central committee, have no knowledge of the fresh names because that was not decided at the meeting of the committee on Aug 17,” he said in a statement.
On Aug 26, the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, had decreed that the three parties making up the Pakatan Rakyat pact – DAP, PKR and PAS – submit more than two names to be considered for the post of MB.
The sultan requested the names after deferring the acceptance of the resignation of Khalid Ibrahim until a new MB was appointed to replace him.
Khalid had initially refused to step down as MB in defiance of a PKR and Pakatan Rakyat decision to do so to pave the way for PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to take over the post.
He was sacked from PKR for his persistence in staying on.
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