Nasha: I leave it to delegates to decide my fate
Hazlan ZakariaPublished: Jun 1, 2011 6:33 PM | Updated: Jun 2, 2011 7:24 AM
No 2 incumbent Nasharuddin Mat Isa says he leaves it up to PAS’ muktamar delegates to decide who they are going to elect for the deputy president's post.
No 2 incumbent Nasharuddin Mat Isa says he leaves it up to PAS’ muktamar delegates to decide who they are going to elect for the deputy president's post.
"Leave it to the delegates to decide," he told reporters at a press conference after opening the PAS youth general assembly in Shah Alam tonight.
Nasharudin (middle, in photo) was responding to questions on whether there is any truth to talk that he had lost the support of the ulama faction to party disciplinary committee head Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man who has joined the race for deputy president at the eleventh hour.
Former vice-president Mohamad Sabu was the earliest of all three candidates to declare his bid for the party’s number two spot.
Pressed further on whether Tuan Ibrahim's entry had caused a split in the ulama’s support, he said that he cannot pre-empt something that has not yet happened.
"We have to wait for the result (to know). I cannot give a pre-emptive answer to your pre-emptive question," quipped Nasharuddin.
Asked if there were efforts from certain quarters to affect his withdrawal from the bid to defend his post as deputy-president, the former academician denied knowledge of any such move.
"Efforts to ask me to withdraw, there is none. But there are speculations," said the three-term party number two.
Just over 24 hours before party elections, political observers predict Nasharudin has lost his support base from the ulama faction following their switch in favour of dark horse Tuan Ibrahim (left).
In his opening speech at the Islamic party's youth wing earlier this evening, Nasharuddin was seen to have sought to shed the association with the unity government group who favours a PAS-Umno merger.
He also defended PAS' association with DAP and PKR as being within the sanction of Islam’s political teachings, and asserted the party’s commitment to Islamic values inside the ambit of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
He took great pains as well to insist the incongruity of collaborating with Umno, which he said indulges in "Machiavellian" politics and interprets Islam according to the demands of power and profit.
As obvious as it appeared that he was trying to distance himself from the unpopular association of being in favour of ‘collaborating’ with Umno, it was crucial to shoring up his image and shedding any baggage that may cost him the contest.
As Nasharudin himself pointed out to reporters in the press conference following his speech, party elections is still one day away, a suggestion that he has time yet to counter with moves of his own against Tuan Ibrahim.
"Leave it to the delegates to decide," he told reporters at a press conference after opening the PAS youth general assembly in Shah Alam tonight.Nasharudin (middle, in photo) was responding to questions on whether there is any truth to talk that he had lost the support of the ulama faction to party disciplinary committee head Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man who has joined the race for deputy president at the eleventh hour.
Former vice-president Mohamad Sabu was the earliest of all three candidates to declare his bid for the party’s number two spot.
Pressed further on whether Tuan Ibrahim's entry had caused a split in the ulama’s support, he said that he cannot pre-empt something that has not yet happened.
"We have to wait for the result (to know). I cannot give a pre-emptive answer to your pre-emptive question," quipped Nasharuddin.
Asked if there were efforts from certain quarters to affect his withdrawal from the bid to defend his post as deputy-president, the former academician denied knowledge of any such move.
"Efforts to ask me to withdraw, there is none. But there are speculations," said the three-term party number two.
Just over 24 hours before party elections, political observers predict Nasharudin has lost his support base from the ulama faction following their switch in favour of dark horse Tuan Ibrahim (left).In his opening speech at the Islamic party's youth wing earlier this evening, Nasharuddin was seen to have sought to shed the association with the unity government group who favours a PAS-Umno merger.
He also defended PAS' association with DAP and PKR as being within the sanction of Islam’s political teachings, and asserted the party’s commitment to Islamic values inside the ambit of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
He took great pains as well to insist the incongruity of collaborating with Umno, which he said indulges in "Machiavellian" politics and interprets Islam according to the demands of power and profit.
As obvious as it appeared that he was trying to distance himself from the unpopular association of being in favour of ‘collaborating’ with Umno, it was crucial to shoring up his image and shedding any baggage that may cost him the contest.
As Nasharudin himself pointed out to reporters in the press conference following his speech, party elections is still one day away, a suggestion that he has time yet to counter with moves of his own against Tuan Ibrahim.
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