Umno Youth has downplayed calls by PAS leaders and delegates for the Islamist party to lead any coalition that it may enter into with Umno.
"The issue of leading does not arise as the joint Umno-PAS primary and technical committees are drafting a national consensus charter.
"The issue of who should control whom never arose as both have their respective strengths and weaknesses," Umno Youth chief Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki told a press conference at the Umno headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.