PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man and secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan will also contest only parliamentary seats.
Takiyuddin said Hadi will defend his Marang seat while he himself will seek re-election in Kota Bharu.
Tuan Ibrahim’s seat will be announced tomorrow, he told a news conference at PAS headquarters here today.
“The decision for all three to stand only in parliamentary seats was made by the party,” he added.
In GE13, Hadi defended Marang and the state seat of Rhu Rendang with majorities of 2,747 and 2,819 votes respectively against Barisan Nasional (BN) challengers.
Hadi first won the Marang seat in 1986 and contested there seven times altogether, losing in two outings.
Takiyuddin defeated his BN rival in 2013 by a margin of 15,970 votes. He had also served in the state assembly as the representative of Bunut Payong from 1999 until 2008.
In Tuan Ibrahim’s case, he lost to BN in the contest for Jengka in Pahang in 2013 by 1,303 votes.
Takiyuddin said all the PAS candidates, except those in Kelantan, Sarawak and Sabah, will be announced tomorrow.
Those standing in Sarawak will be made known on April 21 and in Sabah the next day. The candidates for Kelantan, which has been ruled by PAS since 1990, will only be announced on April 25 – three days before nomination day – because the list needed to be “refined”, he said.
“We already have the candidates,” he added.
Takiyuddin also said the candidates to be announced tomorrow would be required to take the “bai’ah” (oath of allegiance) pledge.
However, he said, the loyalty oath would exclude a pledge to divorce their spouse if they betrayed the party, which candidates in Kelantan had to take before previous elections.
He said the oath would be standardised for the party’s candidates in all states.
Takiyuddin also said the oath would be worded differently for candidates chosen from the PAS supporters’ wing, and other component parties of the PAS-led Gagasan Sejahtera coalition.
The other members of the coalition, billed as the “third force” after BN and Pakatan Harapan, are Parti Ikatan Bangsa Malaysia (Ikatan) and Parti Cinta Malaysia (PCM).
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Sumber Hadi to defend Marang seat, drops Rhu Rendang