PAS top leaders have confirmed that the party is still a part of the opposition bloc, PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan said today.

He said this after attending a meeting held by PKR with PAS leaders today at the PKR party headquarters.

"The consensus we achieved is that we are all still the opposition.

"We are on the opposition platform, those are the issues we discussed, no more than that," Takiyuddin ( photo ) told reporters after the meeting.

When pointed out that PAS had rejected Parti Amanah Negara and the DAP, he stressed that they were all still the opposition.

"The fact is that all of us are opposition to the Barisan Nasional. That's the fact," Takiyuddin said.

"No one is jumping to BN," he quipped. He, however, admitted that there was no formal opposition coalition as of yet.

"We will cross the bridge when we come to it," he said.

PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said they mainly discussed national issues, denying they had discussed matters related to the formation of Pakatan Rakyat 2.0.

"We need time to discuss urgent matters first. "It's still in the process," he said, when asked whether they had discussed Pakatan 2.0.

Asked on PAS' relationship with Amanah, he said: "They are not even registered. We don't even know whether they are amanah (trustworthy) or not."

Working together

PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (photo) confirmed the two parties had spoken about a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

"We discussed it. (We) are together. For now, the mutual agreement is to be together," she told reporters.

PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli confirmed that the parties were together on national issues.

"Even though the process with regards to the new opposition will continue, we will focus as an opposition bloc if it is on issues involving the rakyat.

"But that doesn't stop us from working together as opposition parties so that we will not be hostile towards each other," he said.

Asked to comment further on the 'hostility', Rafizi admitted that there were 'crossfires' between the four parties.

"But the message that the president (Wan Azizah) is bringing is that we need to be together on national issues first at least while we try to solve the working relationship," he said.

Previously, PKR deputy president Azmin Ali had said his party is of the opinion that PAS should be a part of a new opposition coalition.

However, the two other potential members of the new coalition have rejected the idea.

'No sincere appreciation'

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng had said that a coalition with both DAP and PAS on board would be untenable.

PAS and DAP had parted ways in June after the latter objected to Abdul Hadi’s move to table a private member’s bill in Parliament that would pave way for the implementation of hudud law.

Amanah founding member Mohamed Hanipa Maidin, meanhwile, had said that the Islamist party had no sincere appreciation for political cooperation with both the DAP and PKR.

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