Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has explained that he only stepped in as finance minister during his helm of the country because he “needed time to find a good candidate”.
However, the Pakatan Harapan chairperson reiterated today that future PMs should not make this move.
“When I was PM, I held the post of finance minister twice.
“This was because we were waiting to find a candidate to become finance minister.
“When one finance minister was dropped or could not serve anymore, we took a little time to look for a new, good candidate.
“I would usually take on the role as the finance minister,” Mahathir said when speaking at his weekly “Policy Talk” session broadcast through Facebook Live on his official Facebook page this morning.
In his 22 years as prime minister, Mahathir first stepped in as finance minister from September 1998 to January 1999, after he fired then deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim from the post.
Mahathir was finance minister a second time from June 2001 until his retirement in November 2003, replacing Daim Zainuddin, who had resigned.
– M’kini
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