Hadi unable to agree with Anwar, prefers Umno alliance?

The meeting between Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang in Terengganu yesterday to discuss the Selangor Menteri Besar crisis has failed to reach a consensus on the impasse.

News of the failure was widely spread over mobile messaging app Whatsapp, which featured a leaked message said to be from a PAS central committee member.

The meeting between the two top leaders were held at a hotel near Kuala Ibai in Kuala Terengganu.

"The meeting between DSAI and TGHH yesterday failed. No compromise. And Zuhdi's scenario seemed likely to be used," the PAS central committee member wrote, referring to the Malay acronyms for Anwar and Hadi.

This is the only information available about the meeting between the two, as they refused to divulge any details.

PAS to go with Umno

Previously, PAS Research Centre operations director Dr Mohd Zuhdi Marzuki had spoken about the possibility of teaming up with rival Umno to form a simple majority government, while retaining embattled Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim as MB.

PAS currently has 15 assemblymen in the Selangor assembly, while rival BN has 12. Together with Khalid, they make up 28 members, half of the 56-seat state assembly.

Besides Anwar and Hadi, it is understood that PKR secretary-general Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, PAS secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali and Hadi's political secretary Dr Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar, also attended the meeting.

Hadi had previously supported Khalid to continue as MB, a stand which got the backing of the party's influential Shura Council.

However, PAS has been mum since Khalid's expulsion from PKR on August 9.

The Port Klang assemblyman insisted he was still the MB, saying the Sultan of Selangor had consented for him to continue to lead the state government. - TMI