GE14 | Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad is fully aware that the coalition will be defeated in the 14th general election, and therefore he is going all out to try to deny BN a two-thirds win, according to Salleh Said Keruak.

The caretaker communications and multimedia minister said that Dr Mahathir would then spin that as BN chairperson Najib Abdul Razak's ‘failure’.

“By now, Mahathir has accepted the fact that Harapan is going to suffer not only defeat in GE14 but a drubbing as well.

"Umno and BN are poised to make Mahathir and Harapan eat humble pie.

“The best Mahathir can hope for is that BN will not win a two-thirds majority, but a simple majority of about 60 percent of the seats in Parliament,” he wrote on his blog.

Salleh claimed Mahathir hoped this could then be presented as Najib's failure, so that he could instigate Umno to oust Najib.

“Mahathir tells Harapan they need to save Malaysia by ousting Umno, and then he tells Umno they need to oust Najib to save Umno,” he added.

- Bernama