PAS Negeri Sembilan dalam bahaya?

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SEREMBAN: An internal conflict appears to be developing in PAS, with senior leaders complaining privately that the youth wing is becoming too assertive and unreasonable in its demands.

Recently, the youth leadership publicly demanded that Pakatan Rakyat allow PAS, instead of PKR, to contest the Labu state seat in the coming election.

The demand was made at a press conference held without prior consultation with the state PAS leadership, which was a break with tradition.

State youth chief Khairil Anuar Wafa claimed that PAS had the grassroots support to ensure a Pakatan win in Labu, which PKR lost in the last election.

“We are ready to mobilize 300 youth members from all over the state to wrest the seat from Barisan Nasional,” he said at the press conference.

A PKR leader told FMT the brashness and public nature of the demand would not go down well with Negeri Sembilan PAS Commissioner Zulkefli Mohamad Omar.

“I know Zulkefly’s style,” he said. “He is not the kind of person who would deal with intra party matters through the media.”

A senior PAS leader criticized the youth wing for the press conference.

“These guys never informed us about their interest in the Labu seat,” he said. “They should have brought this up at the state PAS leadership council meeting instead of resorting to ambush tactics.

“Does creating havoc through the media guarantee PAS the Labu seat? If they had brought the matter to the state leadership, we would definitely bring it up at the Pakatan Rakyat council meeting. All sensitive discussions should be held in closed door meetings.

He also expressed unhappiness over another press conference last month, where youth leaders demanded that PAS ensure that 60% of its candidates for the next election be from the youth wing.

“They want 60 percent, and now they say they want to send all their strength to Labu. Who is going to work for the other PAS candidates, including their own youth candidates?”

He also told FMT that youth leaders were often absent from the state council meetings.