COMMENT PAS went unilateral last year by insisting on going ahead with its plan to implement hudud in Kelantan.

This plan was never in the common policy framework to which PAS and its past allies, DAP and PKR, in the now defunct Pakatan Rakyat, signed on to going into the 13th general elections held in May 2013.

But last year’s insistence on hudud was not the only case of PAS breaking the consensus that held the now-expired opposition coalition together.

In April 2013, a month before the general election, top leaders of PAS met with de facto PKR head and Pakatan prime minister-designate, Anwar Ibrahim, to tell him that in the event Pakatan won the general election, PAS would nominate Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, the Umno MP for Gua Musang, as their candidate to become PM.