PUTRAJAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pic) has said that he doesn’t know if he has the numbers to take back power from the Perikatan Nasional government.
“Well, numbers keep on appearing and disappearing. We don’t know. What we do know is at the time Muhyiddin was sworn in, he did not have the majority,” Dr Mahathir said during a press conference at the Perdana Leadership Foundation on Friday (June 5).
The ex-premier claimed that they had 114 MPs of 222 in Dewan Rakyat when Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin was sworn in as Prime Minister on March 1.
Dr Mahathir claimed that his supporters were called up and offered positions, with many succumbing to these offers.
He said they would be given jobs or posts that would reward them substantially.
“After Pakatan Harapan cleaned up a lot of government institutions and companies, professionals were in charge but they were sacked and replaced by politicians,” Dr Mahathir said, in reference to government-linked companies.
When asked about the possibility of an election being held now, Dr Mahathir said that at the moment, the Covid-19 situation made it tough, as elections would mean crowds.
He also said that elections are costly and that the government needed money.
“If attention is diverted to running elections, some people are going to suffer,” he said.
When pressed on how Pakatan would fare if elections were held, Dr Mahathir said he didn’t know and that it would depend on the people.
He said there were scare stories going about how DAP would destroy the Malays, something which he claimed was good propaganda for Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who has lost everything. - Star
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