Speaking to reporters at the PKR congress today, Rafizi said PH should not work with any party, especially with those having different ideologies for the sake of winning an election.

“I don’t believe we should accommodate any Tom, Dick and Harry just to win an election,” he said.

Rafizi said after Barisan Nasional (BN) lost in 2018, Umno decided to form an alliance with PAS under MN in the name of  ‘perpaduan ummah’, adding that PAS later tried bringing Bersatu into the fold.

“However, we can now see what has happened. These ties could not last long.

“I am of the opinion that the conventional wisdom that parties should work together irrespective of how different their policies are just to get power is already out of tune with what the voters want.”

He said voters would prefer coherent policies above anything else and they are willing to wait for it.

“We went through four years cobbling together parties with different interests and contrasting personalities, and the public paid the price eventually,” he said, adding that the public and voters now want to focus on competence and ideas.

“Let’s focus on that, even if we have to face multi-cornered fights.”

Umno and PAS formed the MN alliance in September 2019 as an electoral understanding with the main aim of uniting the two major Malay-Muslim parties to challenge PH, which was then in power.

However, both Umno and PAS have been at odds for more than a year over the pact’s future due to the Islamic party’s insistence on working with Bersatu in Perikatan Nasional.