PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli asserted that if he had not taken on the role of the “bad guy” during the 2018 electoral seat negotiations, the party would have been “eaten alive” by Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

He accused his rival Nurul Izzah Anwar of attempting to rewrite history by denying his involvement in the matter when her father Anwar Ibrahim was still in prison at the time.