Selangor PAS had to call off an event to announce the alleged defection of a state Amanah leader today after a 52-minute live-stream showed nothing but empty chairs.

The live feed on Facebook was scheduled to start at 10am, but only came online at close to 10.30am.

However, the video feed, which attracted over 10,000 views and almost 400 shares as of writing, did not show anything but empty chairs.

The stream was finally stopped after 52 minutes. A statement posted shortly after said the event had to be put off.

"Due to unavoidable circumstances, the event for a former Amanah activist to submit a PAS membership form this morning has to be postponed.

"However, Selangor PAS welcomes any intent by any (Amanah) party members who wish to join or return to PAS," said Selangor PAS secretary Roslan Shahir Mohd Shahir.

Amanah splintered from PAS in 2015 after an internal purge at the party polls that year.

There had been a lot of hype from Selangor PAS about the defection since yesterday.

Selangor PAS chief Ahmad Yunus Hairi had said that the Amanah defector was not an assemblyperson, but is a "state party leader".

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