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| PAS president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang (second left) greets visitors to the PAS Hari Raya open house in Gombak, September 11, 2011 |
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — PKR and DAP leaders today downplayed PAS’s assurance that the country’s top two posts will still be held by Muslims should Pakatan Rakyat (PR) assume federal power, saying the matter had yet to be discussed within the pact’s national leadership.
But the opposition leaders also said there was an unspoken consensus among the three parties that the prime minister’s post would be given to a Muslim PR leader, and stressed that all parties have agreed that PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is the pact’s PM-in-waiting.
PAS secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali yesterday moved to assure the party’s grassroots that the country’s top two leaders will still be Muslim if the federal opposition takes over the government.
Race criterion for top spots never raised, says PKR and DAP
