Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad has hit back at political pundits and analysts, telling them to open up a consultancy firm to predict the future.
"These people should open up a consultancy firm on how to predict the future.
"They know more about what can happen than normal humans," the former premier told a press conference in Petaling Jaya this afternoon.
Mahathir said this when asked to comment on a Politweet simulation that Bersatu can only win up to six seats if voter sentiments in the next election are similar to that in 2013.
"Yes, we are only going to contest six seats," Mahathir said in response.
Politweet's simulation also predicted that PKR would win 34 seats, DAP 34, and Amanah 19.
The simulation does not take into account PAS splitting opposition votes, nor the Election Commission's redelineation exercise.
At the Harapan convention on Jan 7, it was announced that Bersatu would be contesting the lion's share of parliamentary seats in the peninsula with 52 seats, one more than PKR.
On another matter, Mahathir who is also Harapan's prime ministerial candidate, said the coalition would be seeking a meeting with the Election Commission so that it can get a copy of the latest electoral roll.
He claimed the coalition had found discrepancies in the copy they had, such as 3.9 million voters not having complete addresses.
He also said that Harapan would ask the government to call on international observers to monitor the upcoming general election.
"This has to be done by the government, so we will ask the government to make a request to the Commonwealth, the UN and so on," he said.
- Mkini
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