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DAP, Amanah claim Anwar fails in 'last ditch bid' to court GPS, reveal numbers
In a statement this evening, the parties also revealed that the first option which proposed Anwar as prime minister and Mukhriz Mahathir as number two failed to garner the required support from lawmakers.
"After exhausting all efforts, we found that the first option had only managed to gain the support from a maximum of 96 MPs," read the statement.
The parties said that of this figure, 91 were from Harapan and the rest were Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the four Bersatu MPs aligned to the latter.
"The last-ditch effort by Anwar to secure the support of GPS had also failed and the number of support could not reach the amount needed while the deadline has already passed," they added.
However, the statement did not reveal the number of MPs who supported the second option, which is for Mahathir to be prime minister and Anwar as his deputy.
The statement was signed by Amanah communications director Khalid Samad and DAP organising secretary Anthony Loke.
It came a few hours after PKR's top leadership issued their statement stating the party's rejection of Mahathir becoming Harapan's candidate for prime minister.
Earlier this week, Loke had told Malaysiakini that the coalition had two options on the table, one of which was to pair Anwar and Mukhriz Mahathir as PM and deputy PM.
The second option was to nominate Mahathir as their PM candidate again while Anwar would be his deputy for a certain period of time before a power transition between the two.
"After exhausting all efforts, we found that the first option had only managed to gain the support from a maximum of 96 MPs," read the statement.
The parties said that of this figure, 91 were from Harapan and the rest were Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the four Bersatu MPs aligned to the latter.
"The last-ditch effort by Anwar to secure the support of GPS had also failed and the number of support could not reach the amount needed while the deadline has already passed," they added.
However, the statement did not reveal the number of MPs who supported the second option, which is for Mahathir to be prime minister and Anwar as his deputy.
The statement was signed by Amanah communications director Khalid Samad and DAP organising secretary Anthony Loke.
It came a few hours after PKR's top leadership issued their statement stating the party's rejection of Mahathir becoming Harapan's candidate for prime minister.
Earlier this week, Loke had told Malaysiakini that the coalition had two options on the table, one of which was to pair Anwar and Mukhriz Mahathir as PM and deputy PM.
The second option was to nominate Mahathir as their PM candidate again while Anwar would be his deputy for a certain period of time before a power transition between the two.
This is atrocious, yes, atrocious that DAP and Amanah have publicly revealed behind-doors PH information that would only embarrassed and unsettled not only Anwar Ibrahim but Pakatan Harapan as a whole.
DAP and Amanah must be so desperate to get into the game of chasing majority rule that they have resorted to bully-boys' tactics, with the sinister aim of forcing Anwar and his 39 MPs back into the pro-Mahathir group. Can't the KHAT faction of DAP and Amanah respect PKR's already announced no-support for Mahathir?
I am utterly disgusted by their infantile lack of courtesy, etiquette and decency.
call it what you like, the colour of your nose tells me where you have been, but am glad dap revealed the actual circumstances, it was the correct thing to do, otherwise people would have thought sorry ass did not give the poor sod a chance to lead
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