KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 — With PAS having severed all ties with the DAP, Selangor has now entered unchartered waters, state DAP chairman Tony Pua said, joining his colleague Lim Kit Siang in warning of a possible collapse in the state administration in the coming months.


Pua said Pakatan Rakyat (PR) cannot continue to exist in its current state in Selangor as without cooperation between its member parties, “the coalition naturally collapses”.


“How does the government function, when the state executive councillors (Exco) of PAS refuses to cooperate with the Exco from DAP when carrying out their respective duties?


“Can one even imagine how surreal the state Exco meeting will be, with the PAS Exco ignoring the DAP Excos or pretending that they don’t exist?” he asked in a statement here.


The end of the PAS-DAP political cooperation, Pua continued, unequivocally means that it will not be “business as usual” again PR and the Selangor administration.


He said the future of PR and the state government will be determined in the coming months as the pact’s member parties decide on a new political alignment that would be the best fit for them all.


Echoing the words of another DAP colleague, Liew Chin Tong, there is now a “vacuum” in the moderate and progressive Malay political space, with PAS having swerved far-right during its just-concluded muktamar.


This vacuum, Pua said, will now have to be filled.


“The failure of this gap to be filled, which will allow a tenable coalition which subscribes firmly to the ‘Common Policy Platform’ endorsed by the rakyat in the last general election, may lead to a collapse of the Selangor state government and for elections to be called,” he said.


During its muktamar on Saturday, PAS confirmed its decision to sever ties with DAP while still remaining in PR with PKR, after the motion proposed by its Ulama wing and Tumpat division was approved without debate.


The two parties have been openly hostile over PAS’s ambition to enforce hudud in Kelantan.


After the decision, Lim warned of a possible collapse of the Selangor government, after pointing out that PR could no longer function as a pact.


The triumvirate of PKR, PAS, and DAP first banded together after the so-called political “tsunami” of 2008 and went on to win the popular vote in Election 2013.


Since then, however, the pact has stumbled from one crisis to another, culminating in today’s virtual disintegration over hudud.