Rift within PAS is also surfacing, with calls for a new pro-PR party president to be elected.

KUALA LUMPUR: The brewing dispute between PAS and its Pakatan Rakyat coalition partners DAP and PKR may have a significant impact both on the future of the coalition and of PAS itself.

At coalition level, a battle between PAS and DAP with regard to the proposed implementation of Syariah law has been on-going for some time now.

That dispute appears to be on the brink of hitting a higher level with DAPs Seremban MP Anthony Loke yesterday calling on both PKR and DAP to take firm action against PAS if the party persists in tabling the proposed Syariah Penal Code 2015 before the Kelantan State Assembly this coming March 18.

The basic principles in the common policy framework of consensus and honesty have been violated, Loke said, as reported by the Malay Mail Online today.

The coalitions existing common policy framework seeks to change from a narrow racial approach to principles based on religious faiths, humanism, ethical and human rights, and equality before the law regardless of status, race or group, with policies derived from adherence to the Constitution and universal principles of justice.

A PR Presidential Council meeting last Thursday had asked PAS to reconsider tabling the enactment.

Despite this, Deputy Menteri Besar of Kelantan Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah yesterday insisted that the enactment would be tabled on March 18, telling the Malay Mail Online that there was no need to discuss the matter further with DAP and PKR.

We have discussed and it will be tabled, he was quoted as saying.

Refuting this, Loke said that Mohd Amar was being dishonest and misleading.

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