Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Pak Lah: PPP free to leave Barisan

KUALA LUMPUR: The PPP is free to leave Barisan Nasional if it continues to insist that it will do so if the Internal Security Act (ISA) is not amended, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.

The Government, he said, had no plan to amend the ISA. Recently, PPP president Datuk M. Kayveas said the party would pull out of the Barisan if the ISA was not amended before the next elections.

Kayveas said he had to follow what the Youth and Wanita divisions had proposed to the party and they wanted the ISA abolished. Kayveas also said Barisan had to make changes before the next general election, and it would be suicidal if it did not.

Asked if this meant that the PPP was free to leave Barisan, Abdullah said: “If that is their choice, what can we do?”

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