Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad believed that Anwar Ibrahim will not seek any government position in the near term because his party had made this clear.
"Actually (PKR Secretary-general) Saifuddin Nasution has made a statement that when Anwar wins, not if he wins but when he wins, he will not seek a position in the government.
"He is not asking a minister position in the government. I take it that it is a consent from Anwar that he (Saifuddin) said this," Mahathir said in a press conference at Bersatu headquarters at Petaling Jaya.
He said this when asked whether Anwar will be appointed to a government position if the latter won the upcoming Port Dickson by-election.
Speculation is rife that Anwar will seek to join the executive if he is elected to Parliament once again, since he is Pakatan Harapan's designated sucessor to Mahathir.
Mahathir today reiterated, again, that Anwar will succeed him.
"We already agreed that it is Anwar... I'm not reneging my promise... When? That period is not certain.
"But I am very cautious that I am 93-years-old. In two years time, I'll be 95," he said.
PKR has engineered the Port Dickson by-election by facilitating incumbent MP Danya Balagopal Abdullah's resignation. -Mkini
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