Wanita Umno head Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz today said PAS president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang's call for the formation of a unity government is a political ploy and bringing in the opposition into Barisan Nasional (BN) might only cause disunity instead.
"We already have a unity government in the BN. We have so many component parties representing all the racial groups in the country ... We already have that, so there is no need for us to bring in any opposition member.
"If anything at all, they might come in and cause disunity; the way they are behaving today, the way their members are disregarding the law and constitution," she told reporters after attending a get together of Umno supreme council and Wanita Umno candidates for the party's polls with Sabah state Umno delegates, here.
Recently Hadi in an interview with The Malaysian Insider, an Internet news portal, had said that with the current economic crisis and political turmoil in the country, the time was right for a unity government and that BN could not on its own bring the nation out of the economic crisis.
"This is just a political ploy, maybe they are losing ground in places where they think they are strong, so they would like to gain some sympathy by talking about a unity government.
"We in BN are very confident of our own efforts to promote national unity, most important is that for the opposition not to distrupt the unity of this country by playing on racial issues, discriminating against groups and causing dissent everywhere," said Rafidah.
Therefore, she said, instead of forging a unity government with the BN, the opposition instead should abide by the laws and avoid violating the national constitution, thus enabling both parties to be able to coordinate with each other in developing the country.
On other developments, when asked about her chances in retaining the top leadership of the Wanita movement against challenger Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, she declined to comment, saying that it is up to the delegates to make the choice.
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