Echoing opposition leader Hamzah Zainudin, PAS Youth has alleged that the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the allocations for opposition lawmakers appeared to conflict with the Federal Constitution on the special rights of the Malay and bumiputera.

Pointing out that the special rights are enshrined in the Constitution, the wing claimed that the MOU is a “recognition of the Setapak Declaration championed by DAP”.

The Setapak Declaration of 1967 refers to DAP’s “viewpoint that in the process of nation-building, ethnic equality must be made the paramount principle...