‘Fate of excos up to Selangor Sultan’

KUALA LUMPUR: The three Selangor PAS executive councillors will remain in office as long as the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, approves of it.

Party secretary-general Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan said it was up to the sultan to decide if Datuk Ahmad Yunus Hairi, Zaidy Abdul Talib and Datuk Iskandar Samad were no longer needed in the state government.

He said PAS stands by the state constitution, that specifies the appointment or removal of an exco member must be done with the consent of the sultan.

Takiyuddin was responding to a claim by PKR’s Rafizi Ramli that the decision by PAS to maintain its exco members in the PKR-held state administration despite severing ties with the party showed that it was only concerned with political power.

On a PKR meeting tonight to discuss the positions of PAS exco members, Takiyuddin said the party would respect whatever decisions made by Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali and PKR.

Meanwhile, party deputy president Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man confirmed that Azmin had not asked the three PAS exco members to resign.

Later in a statement, PAS Pokok Sena MP Datuk Mahfuz Omar said the party should not have dragged the Selangor palace into the state’s political affairs as the current situation was the party’s own doing.

“PAS exco members should resign once the party severed ties with PKR.

“It is also not right to place the burden of removing them on Azmin. It was not Azmin nor PKR who cut ties. It was PAS.”