PAKATAN SAYS ‘NO’ TO BERSATU’S 40 UMNO MPs PLAN: ‘THERE IS NO DECISION TO ACCEPT THEM EN MASSE,’ SAYS MAHATHR – MUSTAPA THE EXCEPTION SO FAR BECAUSE ‘EVEN WHEN HE WAS IN NAJIB’S CABINET, HE WAS NOT HAPPY BUT HE WAS AFRAID’

PUTRAJAYA— Barisan Nasional MPs must resign from the coalition and demonstrate clear remorse and humility before Pakatan Harapan will even consider their entry, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The PH chairman also said his coalition did not currently have plans to admit Opposition lawmakers in numbers as currently rumoured.

“There is no decision to accept them en masse.

“If they leave their party, become neutral, become independent, they support the government and they appeal on bended knee that they want to join us, then we may consider,” he said.

He said, however, that those who were party to pillaging the country would not be allowed into his coalition.

When asked why Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed — a former member of Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s Cabinet — was ushered into PPBM, Dr Mahathir asserted that the former minister has long had misgivings about the Najib administration.

“Even when he was in Najib’s Cabinet, he used to see me; he was not happy but he was afraid.

“A lot of people were scared of Najib. I, too, was scared,” said Dr Mahathir.

MALAY MAIL