ANALYSIS Before PAS leaders could even reel from the confusion that the Islamic party has submitted two name lists to the Selangor palace for the post of menteri besar, this puzzlement quickly turned into shock and outrage when the contents of the list came to light.

In what has now come to be known as the "Hadi Move", PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's office defied the party's central committee decision and submitted its own list of candidates to replace Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, who has lost the state assembly's majority support.

Going against the Islamic party's repeated insistence that it was not coveting the menteri besar position and respected PKR's prerogative to nominate its candidate, Hadi's office omitted PKR from the first list submitted to the palace...