Overview
- Muhyiddin Yassin proposed scrapping the PN chairman post and replacing it with a Bersatu-led Presidential Council to set policy and a PAS-led Executive Council to run the coalition.
- PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said the abolition was never agreed at the Jan 16 meeting and asserted that the chairman position must remain.
- Hadi indicated PAS supports creating a presidential council as a supervisory or advisory body and proposed turning PN’s existing supreme council into the executive council.
- A PN Supreme Council meeting slated for Jan 29 to address leadership was canceled, and party presidents were invited to a pre-council session at Muhyiddin’s residence, with its status unclear.
- Analysts say the impasse clouds PN’s credibility as the main opposition and complicates the designation of a de facto prime ministerial candidate tied to the chairman role.