Pakatan Harapan urges campaign to save country

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Pakatan Harapan will call for a meeting of all interested parties who want to work together to save this country.

The coalition said it welcomed all parties, inclusive of all groups of the rakyat, to draft a campaign together.

This was announced in a joint statement released today by PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and Amanah president Mohamad Sabu.

This was in response to the recent statements from suspended Umno deputy president Muhyiddin Yassin and former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

"So far, the statements from Mahathir and Muhyiddin have shown that they are accepting the fact that the government system of concentrating so much power in the hands of the prime minister is dangerous.

"This stance is generally similar to the one that Pakatan Harapan has been fighting for all this while, where we want thorough institutional reform," the statement said.

Muhyiddin's recent statement about the country needing institutional reform and Mahathir's decision to quit Umno, were also positive developments that should be welcomed, the opposition leaders added.

As they respect the people's wishes, Pakatan Harapan is willing to set aside political differences to save the country.

However, it insists that changes must also come with thorough institutional reform, saying it's not enough just to change the prime minister but still maintain the current system.

This must also come with the release of former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim from prison, it emphasised.

The details of this meeting will be announced after the Pakatan Harapan presidential council meeting on March 7 at the Parliament building.

Last Friday, Muhyiddin was suspended from his post in Umno after a supreme council meeting, on the grounds he was not performing his duties to help party president Najib Abdul Razak.

Mahathir then announced that he was quitting Umno for the second time yesterday.

Both are vocal critics of troubled state fund 1MDB, a brainchild of Najib's.



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