Who gets the house in this divorce?

New tenant: Hamzah (left) and his new party will undoubtedly be welcomed into Perikatan by Abdul Hadi, who has favoured the former Bersatu deputy president in the party wars. — Bernama/Filepic/The Star

PAS and Bersatu have officially “bercerai namun masih duduk serumah” (divorced but are still living under the same roof). On June 8, PAS announced it was terminating its political cooperation with Bersatu.

Like most messy divorces, PAS had a laundry list of grievances. Chief among them was Bersatu’s aggressive manoeuvring over the Perlis mentri besar post and a collapse of trust that PAS leaders declared “could not be easily repaired”.