<figure id="attachment_3160106" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3160106" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3160106 size-full" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/8638ec19-abdul-hadi-awang-presiden-pas-muktamar-pas-tahunan-kompleks-pas-kedah-12.webp" alt="Presiden Pas Abdul Hadi Awang" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3160106" class="wp-caption-text">PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang says the party had many candidates to choose from as the next Perikatan Nasional chairman.</figcaption></figure>
PETALING JAYA: PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has confirmed that the party will take charge of Perikatan Nasional, following Muhyiddin Yassin’s decision to step down as the coalition’s chairman.
Hadi said a meeting would be held next week to discuss Muhyiddin’s successor, Bernama reported.
“A meeting will be held with Bersatu. But it is up to Bersatu leaders who resigned from posts in PN whether or not they would like to attend,” he was quoted as saying.
Muhyiddin, the Bersatu president, stepped down as PN chairman effective Jan 1, in the wake of the Perlis political crisis.
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Following his resignation, several Bersatu leaders who held leadership posts in the coalition also stepped down, including Azmin Ali as secretary-general and Ahmad Faizal Azumu as Perak PN chairman.
Hadi went on to say that PAS had many candidates among the religious scholars and technocrats in the party.
However, he refused to identify anyone in particular.
When asked if he was prepared to take over the PN chairmanship, Hadi said he was advanced in age.
Yesterday, the party’s election director Sanusi Nor, received the blessings of PAS ulama wing chief Ahmad Yahaya to be named as the next PN chairman.
On Tuesday, FMT reported that PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man and vice-president Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar were among the names being considered for PN chairman.
The political crisis in Perlis saw PAS’s Sanglang assemblyman Shukri Ramli resigning as menteri besar and Bersatu’s Kuala Perlis assemblyman Abu Bakar Hamzah replacing him.
Prior to Shukri’s resignation, eight PN assemblymen had reportedly submitted statutory declarations to the ruler to withdraw their support for him as menteri besar.
The turmoil in Perlis prompted PAS Youth chief Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamudden to call for his party to take over the reins of PN after accusing Bersatu of both weakness and betrayal in its lack of action against the five assemblymen who withdrew support for Shukri.

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