KUALA NERANG, April 25 – PAS cannot implement hudud laws in the country if it cannot command a two-thirds majority in Parliament, said former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. He said this was because a two-thirds majority was needed to make ammendments to the Constitution.
“It (PAS) is only contesting 70 out of the 222 seats (in the Dewan Rakyat).
“DAP and PKR will not support, they (PAS) will not get the two-thirds majority but the people don’t understand this.
“To set up an Islamic nation and to use hudud law, this is just bluffing, telling lies. People who lie, like to lie cannot form the government,” he told reporters while on campaign rounds for the Barisan Nasional (BN) at the Padang Terap public field here today.
He said the opposition also did not qualify to administer the country because its leaders often had incongruent opinions.
“When (Prime Minister) Datuk Seri Najib (Tun Razak) speaks, all support, Chinese, Malays, Indian, Iban and Kadazan. But when one of their leader says something, the others object.
“They fight against each other, PKR contesting against PAS (in the 13th General Election), how to have cooperation, if they cannot cooperate how to form the federal government,” he said.
On other matters, Dr Mahathir described the explosion incident at a BN rally in Nibong Tebal on Tuesday as not Malaysian culture. Mahathir said the culture might have been copied from countries where the governments are under dictatorships and that such a thing should not happen here because Malaysia holds elections every five years .
In the 10.15pm incident, one security personnel was injured in his right leg after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted about 10 metres behind a stage there went off.
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