Kelantan folk wary even as PAS draws closer to Umno
Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan and PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man announcing a formal pact between the two parties on Monday. Many Kelantanese are still wary of Umno as the party had betrayed PAS in the past. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, March 7, 2019.
EVEN as top PAS and Umno leaders grow closer together, the Islamist party’s supporters in their stronghold of Kelantan remain wary of their former political rivals. While younger Kelantan folk are open to deeper cooperation between the two, a history of betrayal and decades of enmity between the two since PAS took over Kelantan in 1990 have made older supporters distrust Umno.
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