Hadi: I initiated move to bring down Harapan govt

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said he was the one who initiated the move to bring down the Pakatan Harapan government after the administration tried unsuccessfully to ratify the Rome Statute and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Icerd).

He described the attempt to ratify the two conventions as proof that some of the Harapan component parties were anti-Islam.

After the two issues broke out, Hadi said he approached Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin at the time to bring down the Harapan administration.

Following Muhyiddin’s greenlight, Hadi said negotiations were then held with Umno.

“As a result of the agreement, Muhyiddin made a move which was to announce (Bersatu’s) exit from Harapan. I proposed the Bersatu president as the new prime minister candidate.

“Umno at the time also agreed until there was a Perikatan Nasional (PN) government to replace the Harapan administration.

“The existence of the PN government is not through a hole in the roof or the backdoor… because Muhyiddin’s appointment was decreed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong,” Hadi said, as reported by PAS mouthpiece Harakah Daily today.

However, he said, after Umno managed to replace Muhyiddin as prime minister with one of their own, they wanted PAS to cut ties with Bersatu.

That was the ultimatum Umno gave to PAS in order to continue the Muafakat Nasional pact between the two parties.

Back in 2019, the Harapan government had wanted to ratify several international treaties and conventions, including the Rome Statute and Icerd, but they backtracked following a conservative backlash led by Umno and PAS.

Icerd is a treaty aimed at tackling racial discrimination in response to apartheid previously practised in South Africa, but seen as a threat to the special position of Malays and Islam, despite the then government’s reassurances that an “exception” would be made for privileges under Article 153 of the Federal Constitution.

Meanwhile, ratifying the Rome Statute would confer recognition to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which drew concerns over whether the Malaysian monarchs would fall under the ambit of the ICC.

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