Pakatan on brink of break-up

DAP strongman Lim Kit Siang today warned Pakatan Rakyat that the coalition is on the brink of a break-up.

“What happens in the next 24 hours in the Selangor MB crisis may upstage the August 17 PAS leadership meeting and set the seal for the irretrievable break-up of Pakatan Rakyat,” he said in a press statement.

He did not elaborate, but observers see tomorrow’s meeting between Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim and the State Exco as a crucial development in the current crisis.

Lim alleged that Barisan Nasional strategists were “working overtime” in a “high powered campaign” to entice DAP and PKR assemblymen in Selangor to go against their parties’ stand on the issue.

“This campaign gains strength with the open support in some quarters for an Umno-PAS unity government,” he added.

-FMT