KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 – Datuk Mustafa Ali believes a two-party system is the answer to end powerful Barisan Nasional’s (BN) 54-year rule and has called on PAS colleagues to work towards that particular goal in the coming national polls.Harakah Daily reported the PAS secretary-general as saying the two-party system would be achievable in five to 10 years, but was difficult now due to hesitation from some party members who question if they are compromising the party’s ultimate plan to make Malaysia an Islamic state.
The Islamist party had teamed up with the secular DAP and the reformist PKR to form a political alliance after beating the ruling coalition in the landmark 2008 elections to take five states.
“A two-party system is important to PAS and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) because it will ease joint efforts to defeat BN in the elections,” the political party’s paper cited Mustafa as saying yesterday.
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