Handover date on the agenda at council meet

By admin-s On Feb 14, 2020

Pakatan Harapan top guns are keen to press Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to ease the political uncertainty over when Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will take over.

Joceline Tan, The Star

IT is quite clear by now that not all Pakatan Harapan MPs will support the PAS plan for a vote of confidence in Parliament for Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to complete the full term as Prime Minister.

Some of the MPs are against supporting an Opposition motion even though they support Dr Mahathir.

Others like Tanjung Malim MP and PKR vice-president Chang Lih Kang are against the fact that the motion is to enable Dr Mahathir to go a full term for the simple reason that it would be against the coalition’s agreement of a mid-term handover of power.

Chang’s stand reflects that of MPs loyal to PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. They respect Dr Mahathir as the Prime Minister but they also want him to respect the transition agreement.

The fact that not all Pakatan MPs will come along suggests that the motion could turn out to be a double-edged sword.

The Prime Minister, said Selangor PAS secretary Roslan Shahir, will have substantial support from the Opposition bench.

It is likely that Umno MPs, most of whom have signed statutory declarations (SDs) in support of Dr Mahathir, will vote for the PAS motion.