Exco to remain in S'gor as long as backed by Sultan: PAS (Updated)

KUALA LUMPUR: The three Selangor PAS executive councillors will remain in the exco for as long as they receive the consent of the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah.
Party secretary-general Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan said it was up to the Sultan if he felt Datuk Ahmad Yunus Hairi, Zaidy Abdul Talib and Datuk Iskandar Samad were no longer relevant or needed in the state government.
He maintained that PAS stands by the laws as enshrined in the state constitution, which explains that the appointment and removal of an exco member is with the consent of the Sultan.
"Any exco members who holds a position in the state government is at the pleasure of the Sultan. Meaning for as long as the Sultan consents to it, PAS exco members will remain there.
"Only the Sultan can instruct an exco to resign from his position, or simply remove him, even if it was at the recommendation of the Mentri Besar," he told a press conference after attending a Gagasan Sejahtera meeting, here, today.
Also present were party deputy president Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man and Ikatan president Tan Sri Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir.
Takiyuddin was responding to a claim by PKR's Rafizi Ramli that PAS' decision to maintain its exco members in the PKR-held state administration despite severing ties with the party is proof it was only worried about political power.
On a PKR meeting tomorrow night supposedly to discuss on the positions of PAS exco members, Takiyuddin said the party would respect whatever decisions made by the Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali and PKR.
Meanwhile, Tuan Ibrahim confirmed that Azmin had not asked the three PAS exco members to resign from their positions, saying he had met them after their meeting with the Mentri Besar.
"There was no mention of Azmin telling them to quit. For now, we have not received any official letters, so for us, we will maintain it as it is," he said.
When asked what PAS would do should Azmin decide to remove the three exco members from the state, Tuan Ibrahim said the party would wait for the official letters.
On former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's claim that PAS can be regarded as a yet to be registered Barisan Nasional component party, he said: "I think he is just disappointed that we didn't join Pakatan Harapan."