COMMENT Not as weighty perhaps as the 1MDB debate, yet critical to the resolution of issues of national import is the contention between the participants in the PAS debate over the party’s future.

While the off-on-off again 1MDB debate between Tony Pua of DAP and Arul Kanda Kandasamy of the state wealth fund is tied up in pre-match technicalities, the contestation in PAS is free of such encumbrances.