FORMER Bersatu supreme council member Muhammad Faiz Na’aman has in an interview accused the “cartel” within the party of turning it “into something akin to a public toilet or a brothel, where anyone can come and go easily”.

He had alleged that certain individuals who had left Bersatu to join other parties were able to return and get involved with the party again.

In the interview with the Malaysiakini portal, he said he suspected the readmission of these members could be linked to the party elections and attempts by the cartel to expand their influence.

Bersatu is set to hold party elections soon after the state elections conclude.

Faiz, who quit the party on Monday due to gross dissatisfaction with the party, also aired his grouses with the party’s political bureau, which he accused of making decisions without approval or prior notification to the supreme council.

That action, he said, gave supreme council members like him problems.

“As a supreme council member, I am responsible for safeguarding Bersatu’s good name, whether to the media or grassroots members.

“But when decisions are made without referring to the supreme council, that’s the reason confusion arises sometimes,” he was quoted as saying in the interview.

The Bersatu pioneer, reportedly among the first 100 members and youths who joined Bersatu in 2016, branded the political bureau as a group that is “more elite than the party elite”. – August 10, 2023.