PAS seen as siding with Hamzah over Muhyiddin in Bersatu tussle
A political analyst believes PAS is taking sides in the Bersatu leadership tussle, with the Islamic party preferring Bersatu deputy president Hamzah Zainudin over his president, Muhyiddin Yassin.
This followed the implicit rejection by PAS of Muhyiddin as Perikatan Nasional’s prime minister candidate, with party president Abdul Hadi Awang saying the party wanted someone under the age of 70.
Political analyst Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, who recently retired from Universiti Sains Malaysia, said: “There’ll be a clash between PAS and Muhyiddin’s loyalists in Bersatu rather than with Bersatu itself.”
He said PAS would not want to be bogged down by Muhyiddin’s court cases, or even the unresolved issues involving the Bersatu president’s son-in-law Adlan Berhan, who is…
