UNLIKE PAS in Selangor, PKR representatives in Kelantan have agreed to quit their posts in the state government.

Kelantan PKR council chairman Abdul Aziz Kadir said the state reps for word from the PKR secretary-general to proceed.
 
“The situation in Kelantan is the usual; we will abide by the decision of the top leadership.

“Party members and political appointees have expressed their willingness to step down because we do not go against the instruction of the top leadership and we cannot go against it,” he told The Malaysian Insight today.

He was commenting on the PKR political bureau’s instructions yesterday for all political appointees in Kelantan to immediately resign. 

PKR leaders had held a meeting following the PAS Shura Council’s decision to severe ties with the party.

However, the Islamist party does not want to relinquish its posts in the Selangor government.

PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has said that the future of the three PAS excos in Selangor will be decided when Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali returns from abroad.

It is understood that PAS also has more than 5,000 political appointees in Selangor serving as government officials and in government-linked companies GLC.

Aziz said there are a total of 61 PRK political appointees in Kelantan.

“I have not ordered the resignations because we are still waiting for official instructions from the secretary.

“But there are some councillors who are supposed to be sworn in, but they have decided not to go.”

PKR has only one assemblyman, Roslan Puteh, representing Guchil, in Kelantan.

Aziz said Roslan’s position was unsure. “I’m not sure whether his status is included with all the political appointees

He said the PAS state government has yet to react to the news. – May 17, 2017.