KUALA LUMPUR - PAS splinter group Gerakan Harapan Baru (GHB) will register itself as a political party but with a new name on September 14, Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad said today.
In a report by news portal Astro Awani, Khalid added that GHB will then hold its first party convention on September 16 in Kuala Lumpur.
Earlier this month, Khalid told reporters that GHB members would wait for the 100-day deadline they had given the PAS central leadership to respond to their previous demands before taking the next step.
The 100-day deadline expires on September 14.
Last week, PAS’ defeated professional faction launched the new movement called GHB, and announced they will go on a nationwide tour from now until August to convey to the public its goals.
Its chairman Mohamad Sabu, or better known as Mat Sabu, said while the movement was supportive of hudud, the Islamic penal law that was the cause of a breakdown in the opposition Pakatan Rakyat pact, it will pursue this goal democratically.
Other personalities in the movement include PAS members such as former Kuala Selangor MP Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, former Youth chief Suhaizan Kaiat, and others who were defeated in the Islamist party’s polls recently.
The new movement is a further step towards the formation of a substitute party to PAS in a new federal opposition pact.
Mat Sabu
Selangor PAS has since sacked all its members who are involved with the movement, despite the party’s national leadership saying that no action will be taken as long as there are no complaints lodged against them.
PAS’ Ulama Wing has since warned its members to not be enticed by “satanic” invitations from the party’s ousted progressives to join their budding GHB, claiming the movement is fueled by “resentment”.
Umno-owned daily Utusan Malaysia also warned that the upcoming party will only serve to divide the Malay community politically and will not do any good for the development of the ethnic community. - Malay Mail
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