PUTRAJAYA: Dr Mahathir Mohamad has dismissed recent calls for him to stay on as prime minister until the end of the five-year mandate for Pakatan Harapan.
He said he would keep his promise to resign from the top post once the country is “on an even keel”.
“Unless they push me to a corner and put a gun to my head to continue to finish my term, I will step down,” he told reporters after officiating a round table discussion on workforce today.
“It can be two years, may be three years, I do not know but we are working on that.”
Under a deal struck by the PH leadership, PKR president Anwar Ibrahim will succeed Mahathir as prime minister.
There is no time frame set for the transfer of power, but Mahathir has repeatedly said he wanted to stay not more than two to three years.
On Monday, PKR deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali Azmin backed a call by PAS and Umno for Mahathir to remain as prime minister till the end of the five-year term.
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" unless forced to ".....hahahaha
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