PARLIAMENT Dr Mahathir Mohamad has now become a key component of DAP's attempts to unseat BN, said Umno supreme council member Ahmad Shabery Cheek.

Ahmad Shabery said DAP could not position itself as a party that could provide a prime ministerial candidate and had to use other parties.

"What they can't offer is a prime minister. I consider anyone that can fulfill DAP's ambition to oust the present government as a puppet of DAP," he told reporters at the Parliament lobby today.