The aide, Tun Faisal Ismail Aziz, said the leakers had the intention to further increase ill-will within Umno towards PAS.

He said the leaked papers, which were widely spread on social media, were merely notes made by someone unknown, and it was also not known whether the contents were true or exaggerated.

He said the papers were not minutes of the meeting, as claimed on social media, Bernama reported.

The papers purportedly showed that PAS leaders had discussed moves against certain Umno leaders who were facing criminal charges in court.

Tun Faisal, press secretary to Annuar, who is communications and multimedia minister, said the papers would be well received by those who favoured Umno going solo in the 15th general election.

“The end goal (of the leakers) is that Umno must hate PAS; Muafakat Nasional must be buried deeply; and that only by contesting solo can Umno and Barisan Nasional achieve an absolute victory of a two-thirds majority,” he said.

Tun Faisal urged Umno and BN to be cautious about a general election victory.

He said that in 2018, the prime minister’s special officer, confident of a two-thirds majority for BN, had celebrated prematurely at 6.30pm on polling day even though Jasa, the special affairs department, had predicted that BN would lose power and win only a maximum of 90 seats.