PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said he was the one who initiated the move to bring down the Pakatan Harapan government after the administration tried unsuccessfully to ratify the Rome Statute and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Icerd).

He described the attempt to ratify the two conventions as proof that some of the Harapan component parties were anti-Islam.

After the two issues broke out, Hadi said he...