ROMPIN Rompin voters have been told to support the PAS candidate in order to increase the number of MPs to support the implementation of hudud.

Speaking at a ceramah in Muadzam Shah last night, PAS vice-president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said having a PAS lawmaker would help the passage of a Private Member's Bill on the matter raised by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.

"We need votes (in Parliament) for the (amendment of the) Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 that was brought to Parliament by our president.

"Just imagine if the MP you elect stands up and support the law of Allah," Tuan Ibrahim said during the Himpunan Derita Rakyat (Hindar) 2.0 event.

Rompin will go to polls tomorrow. BN's candidate is Hasan Arifin, a former deputy menteri besar of Pahang, while PAS has fielded Nazri Ahmad, an ustaz.

Over the past three general elections, incumbent Jamaludin Jarjis has always managed to secure at least 66 percent of the votes cast.

However, BN's share of the vote is expected to take a drop following public outcry over the implementation of the goods and services tax and PAS' renewed hudud push.

Rompin is a rural seat, with Malays making up 87 percent of the total voters of 53,249.

Thus far, PAS' campaign had mostly touched on economic issues, particularly the implementation of GST.

MCA warns about hudud

PAS president Hadi Awang prepared a Private Member's Bill to amend a federal law to pave the way for hudud in Kelantan, but failed to table it in the last parliamentary session.

PAS has confirmed it will table the bill again in the next sitting of Parliament.

MCA has been relentlessly using hudud as a weapon to warn Chinese voters to vote against PAS, saying PAS will build a Islamic state in Malaysia.

"At this juncture, as Chinese voters in Rompin, we (have to) come out to oppose the Islamic amputation law (hudud) on May 5, to tell PAS firmly that we cannot support it," MCA chief Liow Tiong Lai told Chinese voters recently.

DAP, the Pakatan Rakyat ally of PAS, with which it is in loggerheads over hudud, does not appear to be putting much effort in campaigning for PAS in Rompin.

However, but Nazri denied this claim, saying Pahang DAP chairman Tengku Zulpuri Shah was among who came to help.