‘Jika ada Wawasan, kenapa kita nak pergi?’ soal pemimpin Bersatu

Selangor Deputy Deputy Chairman, Rafiq Abdullah, questioned the necessity of his party attending the Perikatan Nasional (PN) summit if it involved the Wawasan party. He believed the decision to allow Wawasan without approval from all component parties contributed to the disagreements and cited PAS's decision to cease political cooperation with Bersatu.

Rafiq asked, "Why go if there's Wawasan?" during an interview with FMT. Earlier, PN Chief Secretary Takiyuddin Hassan announced that Bersatu would be invited to the PN meeting after the court allowed PN to postpone the implementation of its registration decision. This postponement, according to Takiyuddin, was due to alleged PN rule violations by the new PN leadership.

The last time Bersatu attended the PN summit was on June 22nd, before claiming that their representative was blocked from attending on July 16th. At that time, Bersatu's Public Relations Officer, Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz, accused PAS, the chairman and manager of PN, of unilateral actions that breached PN's constitution and its decisions.

PAS needed to understand that they should not act unilaterally and violate PN's constitution and its rules since the country has laws and PN has its own constitution and regulations, he said. Meanwhile, Rafiq dismissed Takiyuddin's accusations as recognition of Bersatu's situation, emphasizing that the decision on whether Bersatu would attend the meeting should be discussed at the highest level of the party.