PAS’ over-confidence to push aside Bersatu

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PAS’ over-confidence to push aside Bersatu, pursue gov’t collapse narrative might be its undoing”

IT IS tempting to think of Perikatan Nasional’s (PN’s) rise as a linear trajectory to Putrajaya as PAS now stands at the peak of its powers. But if we have learned anything from history, it is that we should never underestimate PAS’s ability to get in its own way.

The internal rupture between PAS and Bersatu is already starting to show. PAS had started to assume the role of de facto senior partner in PN – contesting the majority of the seats in the Aug 12 state elections (126 out of 245 seats) and winning most of them (105 out of 126).

Soon they will not be comfortable with inequality between seat count and leadership positions with Bersatu currently assuming key leadership positions in PN such as the chairman, parliamentary opposition leader, and secretary general.

Before the Aug 12 six state elections, PAS presumed that Bersatu was still necessary to give the coalition a veneer of professionalism so that it could appeal to the broader electorate, chiefly the urban centres of West Malaysia.

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