PAS insisted an anti-ICERD rally must proceed as planned on December 8 even though the government has said it would not ratify the treaty due to the Malay outcry.
Party president Abdul Hadi Awang said the Dewan Rakyat would ensure Malaysia ratified the the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) because Muslim MPs were outnumbered by their non-Muslim colleagues.
“Within the Pakatan Harapan government, 66 Parliament seats are held by non-Muslims, while only 58 are held by Muslims. I don’t know how this came to be.
“However, do not use this to approve ICERD and this is why we will continue with the anti-ICERD rally. It’s not that we want to incite chaos, we want to protest,” Hadi was quoted as saying on Sinar Harian, today.
Hadi said this during a keynote address at a Terengganu PAS leadership meeting in Kemaman, yesterday.
He said the Amanah MPs could not be relied on to support Muslims as they were DAP lackeys.
There are 222 members of parliament, of which 140 are Muslim and 82 are not.
Malaysia is one of 14 countries yet to ratify the convention. – December 2, 2018.
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