‘Muafakat Nasional’ name already taken, says PAS leader

‘Muafakat Nasional’ name already taken, says PAS leader

The party's deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man explains why alliance comprising Umno, PAS and PPBM has still not been registered with the RoS.

Umno and PAS leaders after signing their agreement to form Muafakat Nasional in September last year.
PETALING JAYA:
The PAS, Umno and PPBM alliance cannot be registered as “Muafakat Nasional” (MN) because the name is already in use according to the Registrar of Societies (RoS).

This was revealed by PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man in an interview with FMT today.

“Despite this, the alliance will continue to be strengthened. Muafakat Nasional is not just a political alliance, but one to also unite the ‘ummah’,” he said, using the Arabic term to describe Muslims.

Meanwhile, the Islamist party’s vice-president Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah told FMT that there have been no suggestions for a new name for the alliance.

In October, Umno and PAS agreed to officially register MN with the RoS.

MN was formally set up in September last year as an alliance between Umno and PAS, the two largest Malay-Muslim parties. However, in August, PPBM was accepted into the fold by the two parties, having left the Pakatan Harapan coalition earlier this year.

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