ALOR STAR: Perikatan Nasional election director Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor has alleged that the action taken by three Bersatu members of Parliament to vow their support for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was orchestrated by political brokers.
Sanusi believes that the movement was orchestrated to entrap the PN lawmakers, who are desperate for funding to support their respective constituency, while ensuring Anwar to remain in power.
"I think the main reason is the non-existence of allocation to serve their respective constituency, that's all. Perhaps that is their way to entrap Opposition MPs to support the Prime Minister.
"You cut off the water supply, electricity supply, the medicines supply, bombed the hospitals… This is being done so that the people in Gaza surrender, that's all.
"That is the same strategy… If I said it outright, it would sound too harsh but that is the way. To impose sanctions so that they give up. There are three of them (PN MPs) who have surrendered, entrapped by the same strategy," he said.
Sanusi, who is also Kedah Menteri Besar said this in a press conference after chairing the state executive council meeting at Wisma Darul Aman here today.
He was responding to Bersatu Gua Musang MP Mohd Azizi Abu Naim's announcement yesterday declaring his support for Anwar and his unity government.
Azizi became the third PN MP to announce the stand, joining fellow Bersatu MPs Datuk Suhaili Abdul Rahman (Labuan) and Datuk Iskandar Dzulkarnain Abdul Khalid (Kuala Kangsar).
In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Azizi said his move to support Anwar had to be done for the sake and betterment of the people in his constituency.
Commenting further, Sanusi said that was why election candidates from Pas underwent a meticulous selection process.
"In Pas, we are trained to be resilient, to strengthen our faith because once you become an elected representative, you shoulder the people's trust, hence we need to have mental and physical strength.
"That is why you have to be meticulous in filtering the candidates so that you are rest assured that they are able to withstand the pressures.
"In a warfare, there is a strategy of capturing a soldier, peel off his fingernail, torture him like what the Japanese army used to do (during World War II), forcing him to spill out all the secretes because he couldn't stand the tortures.
"That's why elected representatives need such strength because they are the first to be caught," he said.
When queried about whether any Pas members of parliament had expressed intentions to support the prime minister, Sanusi responded that he was relying on their own fortitude.
Sanusi pinned the blame on political brokers whom he alleged to have acted with the aims to retain their political master in power.
"They want to retain their boss in power, so they are buying over (elected representatives. I have personally experienced this in 2008 (when Pas was in power in Kedah).
"I know who the brokers are. I pray that in the afterlife, the brokers will get the punishment for what they have done," he said.
