Dr M says has no problem with Anwar but unsure if feeling is mutual
Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he does not have any problem with PKR president Anwar Ibrahim but added he does not know if the feeling is mutual.
Mahathir also said that he was not eyeing to become prime minister again but nevertheless would take up the job temporarily if asked to do so.
Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he has no problem with PKR president Anwar Ibrahim but does not know if the feeling is mutual.
Mahathir also said that he was not eyeing to become prime minister again but nevertheless would take up the job temporarily if asked to do so.
Asked further about his relationship with Anwar, Mahathir replied: " As far as I am concerned I have no problem with Anwar."
"Maybe he has a problem with me, that I don't know, you have to ask him," he said at a press conference in Putrajaya today.
Yesterday, Anwar and PKR were again absent from a meeting between Mahathir, Warisan, and Pakatan Harapan yesterday.
Harapan, Mahathir and Warisan claim to be on the cusp of seizing back Putrajaya from Perikatan Nasional but it is believed that who will be prime minister - Mahathir or Anwar - continues to be a sore point.
When asked if he was going to be the prime minister candidate again, Mahathir said that he was not offering himself for the job but would be willing to serve.
"I'm not offering myself, but I look upon things as a duty [...] I'm not interested in my personal wellbeing but if I can be of service and people think I can be of service, I am available.
"But not for long. I am already 94, how many more months do I have?" he posed.
Pressed if he and Harapan had the numbers to topple the PN government, Mahathir appeared less than confident.
“Well, the numbers keep on appearing and disappearing. “We don’t know. But what we do know is that at the time when Muhyiddin was sworn in, he did not have the majority because we had the majority.
“We had people who signed a declaration that they were with us, we had 114 (MPs) and at that time Muhyiddin did not have enough to have a majority,” he said.
Following Sri Gading MP Shahruddin Salleh’s resignation as deputy works minister and apparent defection from PN yesterday, Mahathir said that he did not expect many more MPs to follow suit.
“I don’t think there will be very many more because they are all thinking about their own personal wellbeing.
“They are with him (Muhyiddin) as ministers and they get good pay, they are not going to give up on their good pay. Because of that, many are not crossing over,” he said when asked.
Following intense speculation that he would defect from PN, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Redzuan Mohd Yusof clarified today that he will not be resigning.
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