PKR president Anwar Ibrahim has denied that the Pakatan Harapan administration practised political hypocrisy in moving a large portion of entities of the Finance Ministry and placing them under Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
"I don't believe so," he told a press conference after attending the Malaysian Economy Symposium: Present and the Future' held at the Parliament building today.
"This is because Khazanah and Petronas are national holdings," said Anwar.
"So for the transition (period), this is acceptable," he said, adding that people did not see this as a business arrangement that the prime minister was involved in.
At the same symposium earlier, academic Edmund Terence Gomez had questioned how Pakatan Harapan was managing government-linked company (GLCs) and government-linked investment company (GLIC).
He also questioned why the need to move all these entities to Prime Minister's Department when Harapan had already pledged that the prime minister would not also hold the post of finance minister as during the previous administration.
[More to follow] - Mkini
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