Pakatan Harapan will have to discuss about the upcoming protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) before deciding if they will mobilise their members for it.

The protest on Jan 23, which was organised by a group of NGOs, has already garnered support from PAS, PSM and Amanah.

The three opposition parties have declared that they will be mobilising their members for the peaceful protest.

However, PKR and DAP, who have previously said they oppose the TPPA, have so far remained conspicuously silent about whether they will join the protest.

“We’ll discuss it at the Pakatan Harapan meeting next Monday,” DAP organising secretary Anthony Loke told Malaysiakini, when asked if they will be mobilising their members for the protest.

After the Pakatan Harapan leadership summit last Saturday, the coalition said they will no longer agree to disagree and any party that breaks from their consensus will be given the boot.

“Agreeing to disagree is no longer the principles of Pakatan Harapan.

“The three parties are free to make their own political decisions, as long as it does not go against the agreement and mutual decisions inked today, or those made by the presidential council,” PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli had said.

Previously, Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim) and two other NGOs had pledged to hold a peaceful protest against the TPPA on Jan 23, two days before Parliament convenes for a two-day special sitting to debate on whether or not to ink the TPPA.

This came after their challenge brought to the High Court in Kuala Lumpur to stop the government from signing TPPA was dismissed .

Amanah deputy president Salahudin Ayub, who was present at court that day, had said that they will be asking their members to mobilise for the protest.

PSM later announced that they will join the protest and have organised a march, which will start at Maju Junction and end at Dataran Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur.

Meanwhile, PAS also said it will mobilise tens of thousands to protest the TPPA at Dataran Merdeka.

The TPPA is a multinational free trade agreement in which the US is a main proponent.

Apart from Malaysia, other countries involved in its secretive negotiations include Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Mexico, and Canada, among others.

Critics fear that the TPPA will wipe out local businesses, as well as threaten Malaysia’s sovereignty due to a clause allowing foreign corporations to sue the government for actions that result in loss of profits.

Parliament will debate on whether or not to sign the pact during the special Dewan Rakyat session on Jan 26 and 27.