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Friday, March 20, 2015

Defying Pakatan, Hadi to personally table hudud bill in Parliament

PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang has initiated the next step to enable Keltantan to implement amendments to the state's hudud laws by sending a notice to Parliament to amend the relevant federal law which currently limits the powers of shariah courts. – The Malaysian Insider pic, March 20, 2015.PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang has initiated the next step to enable Keltantan to implement amendments to the state's hudud laws by sending a notice to Parliament to amend the relevant federal law which currently limits the powers of shariah courts. – The Malaysian Insider pic, March 20, 2015.PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang will table a private members' bill in Parliament this May to enable Kelantan to implement amendments to the state's hudud laws that have drawn outrage from his own Pakatan Rakyat (PR) allies.
The conservative Islamist leader sent a notice to Parliament yesterday, after the Kelantan state assembly unanimously approved the Shariah Criminal Code 11 1993 (Amendment 2015), or hudud bill.
The Malaysian Insider has sighted Hadi's notice, which was confirmed by a senior party leader who said it was to amend Act 355 (Shariah Courts) which limits the powers of the court and is an impediment to implementing the hudud law.
However, PAS secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali said he had no knowledge of the letter to Parliament when contacted by The Malaysian Insider.
"This is not within my knowledge and I know nothing about it," he told The Malaysian Insider.
Act 355 or the Shariah Courts Act (Criminal Jurisdiction) 1965 limits the shariah courts to a maximum penalty of RM3,000 in fine, five years jail and six strokes of the rotan.
An amendment is required in this law to enable the Kelantan hudud amendments to take effect. However, PAS allies PKR and DAP have said hudud laws are not part of the PR pact's common stand.
The DAP leadership will meet on Monday to decide the party's continued participation in PR, a loose pact sealed after their 2008 elections victory which saw the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) lose its traditional two-thirds parliamentary super majority.
The DAP Socialist Youth has now frozen ties with its counterpart in PAS after PAS insisted it was within its rights to pursue the amendments to the Kelantan law.
Ties between both parties have been rocky after the Kajang Move last year which eventually saw Selangor PKR chief and deputy party president Azmin Ali replace state menteri besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim for the top state job.
Hadi had objected to the move and had sent his own nominations to the Selangor palace, risking the pact's existence and winning streak since the 2008 elections.
PKR has also expressed reservations about the hudud law, saying Kelantan PAS should have placed its commitment to its PR partners first before its own right to push its plan for hudud or the Islamic penal code in its state.
The PKR leadership said yesterday PAS has gone beyond the agreement with its PR allies to "agree to disagree" over hudud by tabling an almost entirely new enactment in its legislative assembly instead of a few changes as it originally said it would.
"While PKR respects the right and stance of the Kelantan state government to table this enactment, we would have preferred if the state government had also respected the consensus made earlier with Pakatan Rakyat," read the statement, which was signed by PKR president, deputy president and several other top party leaders.
The statement expressing disappointment with PAS was jointly issued by the PKR leadership, including president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Mohamed Azmin Ali, vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar, secretary-general Rafizi Ramli and the heads of its women and youth wings, Zuraida Kamaruddin and Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, respectively, after the Kelantan legislative assembly passed its hudud bill amendments unanimously yesterday.
On February 8, Kelantan's Deputy Menteri Besar Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah told the PR leadership council that the hudud bill would only amend four items in the Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II 1993, but the draft given to PKR on March 12 detailed the entire enactment over 34 pages long.
"PKR had earlier respected the state government's decision because we felt it was not about a new law and does not change the status quo. The amendments, as informed to us by Amar, were still within the agreed PR framework and consensus regarding hudud.
"After seeing the draft, although the contents were not much different than the original 1993 enactment, we find that it does not honour the consensus we had reached by PR in 2011," PKR said.
In 2011, it was agreed among the three opposition parties that hudud was not a mutual agenda to the coalition but they accepted that it was a PAS struggle that started even before the inception of PR.
Although it was agreed that it was unreasonable to force PAS to abandon the agenda, it was decided that all policies involving PR and their implementation must have the agreement of all three parties.
- TMI

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