PKR and DAP are unlikely to give up any seats so Amanah to contest in Selangor, state PAS commissioner Iskandar Ab Samad said.

This is why Amanah wants to contest against PAS in all their Selangor seats, he said.

"We understand why Amanah wants to contest in all PAS seats. (It's because) their pleas to contest in PKR and DAP seats were rejected by both parties.

"I've also read stern and insulting statements by PKR and DAP when Amanah begged them for their seats," Iskandar told Malaysiakini .

"Actually I pity them because they have been treated badly by their partners in Harapan," he added.

He was responding to a Sinar Harian report today that Selangor Amanah was ready to take on its PAS counterparts in the next elections.

Selangor Amanah chief Izham Hashim said they will be identifying candidates during Ramadan, which falls in June this year.

Iskandar stressed that PAS too is ready to take on any party that opposes them.

However he dismissed Amanah as not being a serious threat to PAS.

Amanah is a splinter party that was formed after a faction seen to be closer to the now defunct opposition pact Pakatan Rakyat, was voted out of PAS' leadership last year.