Attitudes that conflicted with party understanding, and misunderstandings just before nomination, are among the causes of overlapping seats among opposition coalition parties, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said.

The candidate for the Marang parliamentary seat and Ru Rendang state seat said PAS was not opposing its allies in the election, but decided to field their candidates in several areas to save the party and coalition from negative forces.

"We want to maintain stability, not only during the elections, and also to prevent negative forces from penetrating Pakatan Rakyat," Hadi said.

Speaking at a PAS ceramah at Kampung Tebakang in Mukim Alor Limbat, Marang, last night, he said the PAS leadership would hold a news conference at its headquarters today for a solution.

'We will act if candidates not stringently chosen'

"If there are candidates that we fear may not have been stringently chosen, then PAS will take the necessary action.

"There was a clash in Johor because we waited for PKR. Nomination was also closed and they weren't there so we were on standby because we didn't want BN to win unopposed. When PAS entered then PKR entered," he said.

Hadi said he also received information on candidates who had an understanding that was different from the coalition.

"There are some candidates who we fear are involved in selling methamphetamine. How can they be candidates? There are even some who put up pictures of (Vladimir) Lenin, (Joseph) Stalin and Karl Marx at their headquarters.

"PAS cannot work with such candidates," Hadi added, referring to candidates who hold the communist ideology, but he did not name them.

- Bernama

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