Amanah wants a role for Atuk in a Pakatan Harapan government

Malaysiakini:

Dzulkefly: Anwar is Harapan PM candidate, Dr M can be senior minister

Amanah strategic director Dzulkefly Ahmad said while it is clear that PKR president Anwar Ibrahim should be Pakatan Harapan's prime ministerial candidate in the next general election, a role could be found for former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad as senior minister.

Dzulkefly proposed this as a compromise to how forces opposed to the Perikatan National (PN) administration of Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin could team up.

"Mahathir can be a mentor minister or senior minister if he still wants to play a role in Harapan and this could be a win-win formula for GE15 (15th general election),” Dzulkefly told The Malaysian Insight.

“As it is, Harapan is very clear that its prime ministerial candidate for GE15 will be Anwar," he said.

The Kuala Selangor MP emphasised that the idea of Mahathir as a temporary prime minister did not arise anymore although he can play a role if he wants if the coalition is triumphant.

Anwar's supporters are furious with Mahathir who tried to form a unity government that cut across party lines, in direct contravention of his initial promise to hand over the premiership to Anwar.

The machinations of this unity government move led to the collapse of the Harapan administration in which Dzulkefly served as health minister.



Dzulkefly said that Harapan won GE14 because of the three-cornered situation where now allies PAS and BN ran against each other.

The coalition now needs to move on from the impasse as Harapan can only win if there is a “grand alignment” that would involve getting all opposition parties on the same page, he added.

“Harapan and the other opposition parties such as Warisan, Pejuang and the Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (Muda) must have the same goals," he said.

Dzulkefly opined that merely relying on the government's weaknesses would not be enough.

"Our strategy must be based on our strengths, and we cannot take it for granted that PN, BN or Muafakat Nasional will break up before GE15.

“We are bound by a vision to see a more inclusive Malaysia, where there is no ‘ketuanan’ (supremacy) or narrow race discrimination issues.

"Harapan must have the same goals, and a clarity of purpose and vision, unlike its opponents," he said.

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kt notes:

Despite our disgust with Mahathir and his selfish shenanigans, Amanah is still enamoured with Mahathir. I suspect if Amanah has its 'rathers' it would rather have Mahathir as the Pakatan Harapan Plus leader.

We can't blame Amanah as Mahathir endowed the kutu party generously with many ministerial positions even though it only won 11 seats federally in GE14 - yes, it secured Defence, Health, FT and Ag.

But Amanah didn't realise that Atuk did so in order to cover up his PRIBUMI party's very greedy & undeserved grab of far-too-many federal ministerial and state MB positions, way beyond its 13 MPs achievement, while still forestalling Anwar from entering the cabinet. Frankly I cannot even until today rationalise Atuk's very hostile & cruel treatment of the PKR boss, except for only one explanation, his hatred and fear of Anwar.

Now, why should PKR still handle Atuk with kid gloves. Eff him, but wait, maybe Lim Father & Son may agree with Dzulkefly, wakakaka.