PR tells Dr M: After retirement, there's no need to make SENSELESS STATEMENTS

Pakatan Rakyat leaders have sharply rebuked former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s statement that a vote for the coalition was a vote for US billionaire George Soros.

PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu said Mahathir’s statement could not be trusted citing how the latter had absolved Soros as culprit in the 1997-98 financial crisis during the duo's meeting in 2006.

“First he scolded Soros and accused the Jews of bringing down the ringgit. Then when he met Soros, he said Soros was not involved. Then he left UMNO, only to rejoin.

"This (kind of talk) cannot be trusted at all,” he told Harakahdaily.

Mahathir recently wrote that voting "for the opposition, is a vote for Soros, the rogue currency trader”, as well as for recolonisation.

Pointing towards Soros's funding for news portal Malaysiakini, Mahathir alleged that it was aimed “to achieve regime change” and “to put his nominees as prime minister and ministers in the Malaysian government”.

For PAS secretary general Mustafa Ali, Mahathir's statement was the "worst" in terms of its intellectual merit made by the one-time UMNO strongman.

“His argument ... is void of any intellectual value,” he said, adding that it was another desperate move by Mahathir to help BN in power.

PKR secretary general Saifuddin Nasution meanwhile blamed it on Mahathir’s age, while DAP deputy chairman Tan Seng Giaw said it was better to ignore him.

“After retiring, there is no need to make senseless statements,” said Tan.

-Harakahdaily