From MM Online about the Mahathir versus Anwar for PM issue (extracts):
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29— Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s freedom and political future cannot be Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) main agenda, Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) has said.
PPBM also said that PKR had no right to dictate terms on how the PH coalition is run, or who should be its prime minister candidate should they win the next general election.
“This is the PH coalition, everyone has to discuss and arrive at a decision, not just PKR dictating terms on how the coalition is run.
“We do not want PH to be seen as just a coalition for Anwar,” PPBM supreme council member Datuk Rais Hussin Mohamed Ariff told Malay Mail when contacted.
He was responding to a Malaysiakini report which stated that PKR would only agree with PH’s suggestion to name Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as PM and deputy prime minister candidates if certain conditions were met.
Quoting sources, the report said that PKR’s political bureau wanted an assurance that Dr Mahathir would push to campaign for Anwar’s release from prison.
They also wanted the PH chairman to promise that he would only be an interim prime minister until Anwar can take over.
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PPBM also said that PKR had no right to dictate terms on how the PH coalition is run, or who should be its prime minister candidate should they win the next general election.
“This is the PH coalition, everyone has to discuss and arrive at a decision, not just PKR dictating terms on how the coalition is run.
“We do not want PH to be seen as just a coalition for Anwar,” PPBM supreme council member Datuk Rais Hussin Mohamed Ariff told Malay Mail when contacted.
He was responding to a Malaysiakini report which stated that PKR would only agree with PH’s suggestion to name Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as PM and deputy prime minister candidates if certain conditions were met.
Quoting sources, the report said that PKR’s political bureau wanted an assurance that Dr Mahathir would push to campaign for Anwar’s release from prison.
They also wanted the PH chairman to promise that he would only be an interim prime minister until Anwar can take over.
Rais Hussein tok-kok because he is deliberately ignoring PKR's raison d'être as a political party, namely, (initially to free Anwar from prison, still is) and to make him the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
* raison d'être means the most important reason or purpose for someone or something's existence, that is, PKR's existence
Azmin and gang might have since changed their minds so consider them as exceptions, wakakaka.
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In saying ... PKR had no right to dictate terms on how the PH coalition is run, or who should be its prime minister candidate should they win the next general election.
In saying ... PKR had no right to dictate terms on how the PH coalition is run, or who should be its prime minister candidate should they win the next general election.
Rais Hussein forgets:
(a) his racist party Pribumi (full of Perkasa and Mahathir's people and the former EC Commissioner as a VP) is a Johnny-come-lately (a newbie) in Pakatan and
(b) PKR as one of the original Pakatan member, has every right to propose and insist on its political interests.
Rais has the audacity, temerity and brazenness to virtually tell PKR to STFU. Rais Hussein is obviously insistent that Pakatan accepts Mahathir as its PM-designate. Hasn't he done exactly what he condemned PKR for?
What brazen double standards.
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