Azmin: Anwar for Pakatan Harapan adviser? Still under discussion

(MMO) – Pakatan Harapan is still discussing a proposal to appoint PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as the coalition’s adviser, party deputy president Datuk Seri Azmin Ali said today.

“(To have Anwar as Pakatan Harapan adviser is part of) the discussions. No decision has been made yet.

“I was made to understand that the leadership structure line up is still being deliberated on at the secretariat level. In the next meeting, the best structure for Pakatan Harapan will be made,” the New Straits Times (NST) Online quoted the Selangor mentri besar saying at an event at the Dewan Jubli Perak auditorium in Shah Alam.

Azmin said that the Opposition’s main focus now was to garner attention from the electorate and to “generate a new wave of support” for the pact in the upcoming national polls.

Last week, Malay Mail Online reported that Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) was pushing for its chairman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to be the chairman and president of Pakatan Harapan.

PPBM’s proposal also included making Anwar’s wife and PKR president, Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, deputy chair, Azmin as Pakatan Harapan’s deputy president, and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) president Mohamad Sabu as the coalition’s vice presidents.

The federal Opposition pact is planning to register with the Registrar of Societies, but its application is being held back by wrangling over its formal leadership structure.