And sometimes you say itâs only when the economy recovers (who knows how long that would be)? ÂYou say it could be two to three years. Mahathir himself has hinted that he wished to stay on until the countryâs economic woes can be settled.īut Ronnie Liu brushed aside Mahathirâs wish as an unwanted lame excuse. Of late, he said doubts lingered whether the 94-year-old Mahathir was serious about sticking to his word. He rebuked Mahathir over his unwillingness to expressly state the date of handover despite assuring that he would honour his promise to pass the baton to Anwar as PM8. He wants Mahathir to step down gracefully within the agreed timeline. Under PH deal before the last 14th General Election (GE14), Mahathir was supposed to relinquish his post in May 2020 and hand it over to PKR president, Anwar.ĭAP central executive committee (CEC) member Ronnie Liu Tian Khiew reminded Mahathir in a statement today, August 5, 2019, that he was only to be an interim 7th Prime Minister (PM7) under PH pre-GE14 deal. PH leaders backing Mahathir and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim respectively are now in open warfare on the succession plan. THEÂ DAP and PKR are openly up-in-arms against Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad.īoth parties have started to voice out against Mahathirâs plan to overstay his welcome beyond the 2-year Pakatan Harapan (PH) agreement.
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