Anwar says some in Pakatan trying to block him from becoming PM
PH secretary-general Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah disclosed this week that there was no formal agreement for Dr Mahathir to yield the position to Anwar within two years as previously believed.
(MMO) – PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim alleged of a conspiracy within Pakatan Harapan to prevent him from succeeding Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as prime minister.
In an interview with the Financial Times (FT), the Port Dickson MP asserted that it was a minor movement from his own coalition.
“There are pockets, people who for their own reasons would like to sabotage these arrangements”.
“I can’t deny, some people in the ruling coalition [have] a different agenda,” the former deputy prime minister told FT.
“He has done it once [denied succession]; will he do it again? But I think circumstances have also changed,” Anwar was quoted saying in the FT interview.
Anwar did not identify those he believed to be part of the alleged conspiracy.
Within his own PKR, he has clashed with deputy president Datuk Seri Azmin Ali.
In the FT report, Peter Mumford, the Asia director at Eurasia Group, asserted that Azmin also has ambitions for the prime minister’s post.
Lily Rahim, an associate professor of south-east Asian government and international relations at the University of Sydney, predicted that Dr Mahathir would still be influential regardless of who succeeds him.
