{"id":13136,"date":"2015-06-15T17:24:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T09:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=13136"},"modified":"2015-06-15T17:24:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T09:24:26","slug":"sole-pro-pakatan-leader-in-pas-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/sole-pro-pakatan-leader-in-pas-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sole pro Pakatan leader in PAS resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13137\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MAZLAN_ALIMAN_PAS_PRESS_CONFERENCE_150615_TMINAJJUA_04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13137\" class=\"wp-image-13137\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MAZLAN_ALIMAN_PAS_PRESS_CONFERENCE_150615_TMINAJJUA_04-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MAZLAN_ALIMAN_PAS_PRESS_CONFERENCE_150615_TMINAJJUA_04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MAZLAN_ALIMAN_PAS_PRESS_CONFERENCE_150615_TMINAJJUA_04-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MAZLAN_ALIMAN_PAS_PRESS_CONFERENCE_150615_TMINAJJUA_04-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/MAZLAN_ALIMAN_PAS_PRESS_CONFERENCE_150615_TMINAJJUA_04.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pic from TMI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The sole progressive PAS leader elected into leadership has resigned from the party with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>Central committee member Mazlan Aliman, who also heads the\u00a0non-governmental organisation ANAK\u00a0(which represents Felda settlers), said his resignation was spurred by the overwhelming number of the conservatives at the party\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI admit that the resignation had to do more or less with the losses faced by my (progressive) friends (at the party elections) which hurt deeply.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a black mark throughout my 30-year involvement in the party,\u201d he said at the press conference at the PAS party headquarters today.<\/p>\n<p>According to the former PAS Youth Chief, he intends to focus on ANAK, a movement founded by him.<br \/>\nDespite the resignation, Mazlan remains a PAS member.<\/p>\n<p>During the recent PAS elections (2015-2017) held last week, Mazlan acquired 593 votes and was ranked 14th out of 18 positions.<\/p>\n<p>Mazlan said that he feels affected by the crisis faced by the Islamic party; one that is challenging, which requires great patience.<\/p>\n<p>He added that despite his continued commitment to ANAK, PAS\u2019s internal strife has been a significant burden on him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there are allegations that the latest elections were predetermined using a \u2018cai\u2019 (list), it would surely be embarrassing \u2013 that we are no longer leaders chosen based on work performance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>-The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sole progressive PAS leader elected into leadership has resigned from the party with immediate effect. Central committee member Mazlan Aliman, who also heads the\u00a0non-governmental organisation ANAK\u00a0(which represents Felda settlers), said his resignation was spurred by the overwhelming number of the conservatives at the party\u2019s leadership. \u201cI admit that the resignation had to do more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13139,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136\/revisions\/13139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}