DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has finally broken his silence about the continuing tension in Pakatan Rakyat due to alleged diversion from the coalition's spirit by PAS.

 

Lim said the biggest issue after Aidilfitri celebrations is whether the two party system can continue in Malaysia.

 

The breaking up of Pakatan Rakyat on the refusal of one component party to respect and hold on to views arrived at together, could not be discounted according to his Hari Raya statement today.

 

"If the decisions we have achieved together in the Pakatan highest leadership council is dismissed just like that by one party, the survival and credibility of Pakatan will be continue to be undermined," he added.

 

"Without Pakatan, Malaysia will return to the era of wild power monopoly which has oppressed the people and only sided with certain cronies," he stressed.

 

It is believed that Lim was referring to two issues, including PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's ( right ) frustrating his allies in DAP and PKR when he said that there was no reason to remove Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim from his post.

 

PKR shot back by saying that the party maintains that the party's nomination of its president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to replace Abdul Khalid had already been accepted during the Pakatan Rakyat presidential council meeting.

 

The July 23 meeting where the decision was taken included six PAS leaders, namely deputy president Mohamad Sabu, vice-presidents Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man and Husam Musa, secretary-general Mustapha Ali, Youth chief Suhaizan Kayat and central committee member Hatta Ramli.

 

During the meeting, PAS and DAP had reaffirmed respect for the principle that the nomination of the Selangor menteri besar is PKR's prerogative.

 

The second issue is where PAS is said to have diverted from Pakatan's principles when the party insisted on implementing hudud.

 

PAS broke away from their agreement in Pakatan that they would focus more on a welfare state and not hudud law, when the Pakatan manifesto was agreed upon.

 

This has led to Sarawak DAP to ponder quitting Pakatan in the run up to the Sarawak state elections.