PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang said the two parties will use separate machinery and different campaign strategies, even though they will use the same Perikatan Nasional (PN) logo for the election on July 11.
MARANG: PAS insists that the party’s machinery will not be mobilised to help the Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) campaign in the 16th Johor state election.
PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang said the two parties will use separate machinery and different campaign strategies, even though they will use the same Perikatan Nasional (PN) logo for the election on July 11.
“No…the campaigns are different because they (Bersatu) are insisting on the logo and also that we are not breaking up (the PN alliance) again. We are still with PAS. As for the Bersatu party, we do not know their strategy.
“Maybe they have their own strategy that they want to adopt. But the PAS machinery will still work for us in the 11 state seats,” he said when met after the Duha Lecture at the Rusila Mosque here today.
At the same time, Abdul Hadi also stressed that the crisis between PAS and Bersatu has been resolved and his party stands by its decision to cancel the collaboration.
He said PAS has set a target to become the opposition bloc that acts as a check and balance agent for the state government.
“We are contesting 11 seats (in the Johor election). We choose seats that we are confident of winning. The important thing is that we want Johor to be ruled by Malay Muslims,” he said.
The Election Commission (EC) has set June 27 as the nomination day for the Johor election, while July 7 is for early voting and July 11 is polling day.
