Pas challenges Zahid to step down if BN loses in state elections

SHAH ALAM - Pas has challenged Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to step down from his post if Pakatan Harapan (PH) and BN loses in the upcoming State Elections.

Its Information chief Ir Khairil Nizam Khirudin said he was confident that the government under Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s leadership will be punished by the people in the elections.

He claimed it followed the PH-BN internal turmoil other than the weakness of Anwar’s administration was seen as obvious.

"Pas takes Zahid’s challenge for the Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairman to use the State Elections as a measure of the public’s support.

"The 15th general election (GE15) had shown BN-Umno’s worst results in history only having 30 Parliament seats left.

"Umno only has 28 seats and this was the worst achievement by the Umno president by far,” he said on Facebook.

Yesterday, Zahid invited PN chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to use the state elections as a platform to measure the level of public support.

Zahid congratulated Muhyiddin after the Pagoh MP was confident that the PN coalition could win 70 per cent of the voters’ support especially Malay voters in the six states to face elections soon.

Khairil said several issues that hurt the people surrounding the PH-BN government, in addition to Umno’s submission to DAP that would surely cause Umno members to shift their support in favour of PN.

"This shift in support is also added with the division of seats between Umno and DAP in several states that many Umno members were now determined to openly oppose Umno,” he said.