KUALA LUMPUR: PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said today his party is still with Pakatan despite DAP leaders threatening not to work with him.
“For now (I) am still with Pakatan. I still sit in the same seat,” he told reporters at the Parliament lobby when asked to comment on the possibility of Pakatan being dissolved following differing policies among its partners.
"Maybe (it will dissolve), I don't know. Maybe in the future. I don't even know if I'll be alive or not tomorrow either," he said.
When asked what is the best solution for Pakatan's crisis, he said: “My focus is on the muktamar (Pas general assembly) now. We will wait and see."
Hadi said he did not have knowledge of Pakatan's future but it is not an unusual for any political party to either leave or continue being with a coalition.
“We have all experienced it -- being on our own, being with the government, being outside the government. But normally, history does not repeat, and our concept is to be with Malaysia's plural society. We cannot be alone,” he said.
When asked on DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng's remarks that Hadi's heart was with Umno, he replied: "He doesn't know what is in my heart, I don't know what is in his heart. How can we know what is in someone's heart?"
Pas' will be having party polls early next month, and the outcome is expected to determine if the political pact will continue to survive or break up.
The relationship between DAP and Pas was further strained after the Pas-led Kelantan state government pushed amendments to the Shariah Criminal Code II 1993, followed by Hadi's move to table two private member's bills in Parliament.
The bills are for the implementation of hudud in Kelantan. DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang had warned that Pakatan could meet its demise in two weeks.
DAP had last week side-lined Pas when it announced a shadow government with Guan Eng saying that DAP has received consent from opposition leader Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.