Any misuse of authority over the termination of Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali as Attorney General in 2018 was refuted by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. This was said in the defensive statement submitted by Dr. Mahathir and the Federal Government as the first and second defendants in an RM2.2mil complaint filed by Apandi against them, respectively. The …

As the issues continue to rise, here’s Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad who swiped former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today by saying that if the latter could be present for discussion in Parliament, his ongoing trials on corruption could also resume. During today’s Budget 2021 discussion in Parliament, Dr Mahathir’s remarks came up where he expressed that he was …

Pakatan says that it supports Anwar as a PM candidate, granted a ‘absolute mandate’ to negotiate with all parties including Shafie. It said the meeting also agreed to give Anwar a “absolute mandate” to negotiate with all parties towards the end, including with Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal, president of Parti Warisan Sabah who was also nominated for the same post. …

According to Tan Sri Shahrir Abdul Samad, Umno ‘s support of Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin remaining the prime minister after the 15th general election was premature as seat talks were not settled. The former Johor Baru MP said Umno would have been debating how his complicated network of political partnerships will be going into the election. Umno is a member …

According to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is not fit as the nominee for prime minister because he is allegedly not “famous” among the Malays. The former prime minister has allegedly stated that the president of the PKR wants someone like himself to attract Malaysian popularity and win the race. Malays’ support has been seen to be …

Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) President Tan Sri Dr. James Masing today advised former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to avoid playing politics after nominating Sabah’s chief minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal as Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) nominee for prime minister if the alliance wrests the federal government back. He said that this was clearly a trick to get Sarawak and …

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today that he had refused his request to briefly become deputy prime minister when Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is again becoming prime minister because of concerns centered on previous negative encounters and because he felt it would contribute to the old problem of power transfer becoming a subject again. However, the PKR president also pointed …

DAP and Amanah today urged PKR to return to the consensus of Pakatan Harapan to support Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the ninth prime minister if Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim fails to achieve majority parliamentary support. DAP organizing secretary Anthony Loke and Amanah communications director Khalid Abdul Samad stated in a joint statement that Pakatan Harapan (PH) had settled on …

Datuk Seri Najib Razak today seemed to riff on the satirical blog post of his political foe Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad earlier in the morning, teasingly wondering whether a new party called “Anak-anak Daddy” is being created. Najib wrote a short comment asking in a brief Facebook post, whether such supposed data is true. While Najib has not further elaborated, …

There’s another leak reportedly from the Bersatu Supreme Council meeting on February 23 included talks on the removal of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the prime minister at the time for a realignment of the governing parties. The clip was posted on social media, and a single senior Bersatu member once again controlled the discussions. Within it, the Bersatu chief …