KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — DAP leaders said today the party will make no effort to mend its relationship with Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, pointing out that the PAS president had been given many chances to explain himself over his hudud agenda.

Several leaders told Malay Mail Online the secular party will only reconsider their position if Hadi withdraws his notice to table the two private members’ bills on hudud in Parliament.

“We have given Hadi plenty of chances to explain himself.

“So how many chances do we need to give Hadi before we decide that we are being toyed around with?” DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua said today

“Pakatan Rakyat can’t function. That’s why we need to meet PKR over this matter,” he added.

PKR secretary-general Rafizi Ramli said today his party will lead mediation talks between DAP and PAS over the former party’s attacks against Hadi.

But DAP national organising secretary Anthony Loke said his party’s stand on the matter was clear, and that there was no need for mediation talks.

“Unless Hadi withdraws the private members’ bills, I don’t see the need to talk,” Loke said.

Yesterday, DAP pilloried PAS president Hadi for his party’s hudud push, saying it will no longer work with him even as it vowed to remain in the Pakatan Rakyat pact.

The DAP’s central executive committee that met on Monday night accused Hadi of cooperating with Umno on hudud, in violation of the pact’s common consensus and Common Policy Framework.

The decision will prevent the PR presidential council from carrying out any policy decisions as a consensus agreement is required, but will leave the state administrations of Selangor and Penang undisturbed.

On March 19, PAS-ruled Kelantan passed key amendments to its Shariah Criminal Code II 1993 in a move to enable the eventual implementation of hudud in the Malay-majority east coast state.

Hadi last week served notice to Parliament on the proposed Bill, but BN’s law minister Datuk Nancy Shukri said it may not make it into the order paper for the current session as there are many others on the schedule.

With DAP and PKR’s rejection, PAS and its 21 MPs in the lower House must rely on all of Umno’s MPs plus more from other non-Muslim parties in order to get a simple majority of 112 votes to get the Bill passed.