{"id":5506,"date":"2020-08-15T12:19:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T04:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=5506"},"modified":"2020-08-15T12:19:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T04:19:52","slug":"bersatus-participation-in-muafakat-nasional-will-be-finalized-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=5506","title":{"rendered":"Bersatu&#8217;s participation in Muafakat Nasional will be finalized soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia\u2019s (Bersatu)&nbsp;participation in Muafakat Nasional will be finalised soon,&nbsp;president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister said the party\u2019s Supreme&nbsp;Council had agreed to join Muafakat Nasional which supports&nbsp;Perikatan Nasional as a grand coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am confident that this is the best option for Bersatu. We choose to be part of a\u00a0coalition of\u00a0major parties in our country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a.jpg\" alt=\"muafakat\" class=\"wp-image-5507\" width=\"523\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a.jpg 797w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a-768x664.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a-116x100.jpg 116w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a-350x303.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the cooperation between Bersatu, UMNO, PAS and other parties in the Perikatan Nasional, a vast majority of the people will be on our side,&#8221; Muhyiddin said in his speech in conjunction with the party\u2019s Women&nbsp;(Srikandi) and Youth (Armada)&nbsp;wings divisional meetings&nbsp;today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The special address was uploaded on Muhyiddin&#8217;s Facebook page today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bersatu elections&nbsp;kicked off today with the Armada wing, to be&nbsp;followed by the Srikandi wing tomorrow, while elections for the&nbsp;Supreme Leadership Council would be during the divisional meetings on August 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muhyiddin, who is also the acting chairman of the party, stressed that he often had discussions with&nbsp;leaders of UMNO, PAS, MCA, MIC, Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS), Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS), Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku (STAR) and Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) which formed the Perikatan Nasional&nbsp;government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said several significant agreements have been reached in the meetings which, among others, would&nbsp;further strengthen the position of Bersatu and other partners&nbsp;in the Perikatan Nasional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;InsyaAllah, cooperation within the grand coalition will create political stability in the country which will in turn contribute peace, harmony and prosperity to all Malaysians, regardless of race and religion,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1870538\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia\u2019s (Bersatu)&nbsp;participation in Muafakat Nasional will be finalised soon,&nbsp;president&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a.jpg",797,689,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a-300x259.jpg",300,259,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a-768x664.jpg",640,553,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a.jpg",640,553,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a.jpg",797,689,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a.jpg",797,689,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a.jpg",797,689,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a.jpg",797,689,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/38873977a003cb15daf51d3bd9f583e15f3755021849a.jpg",549,475,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=524\" rel=\"category\">Nation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5508,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/5508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}