KUCHING: Bersatu will not be working with Pakatan Harapan (PH) in the 15th general election (GE15).
Its president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said this in response to reports stating that the parties will work together in the upcoming election.
“In line with the principles of democracy and freedom of the people to choose, Bersatu is ready to face a multi-cornered contest in GE15 involving PN, BN, PH and other political parties that will be competing.
“For that, let me reiterate that we (Bersatu and PH) will not be having any form of cooperation with the coalition in GE15,” he said in a statement as reported in FMT today (Oct 15).
He added that the party would instead focus on strengthening the Perikatan Nasional’s (PN) position as a multiracial coalition offering leadership that is “free of corruption for the good of the people”.
On Thursday, PH chairman Anwar Ibrahim said the coalition’s door was ‘wide open’ for talks on cooperation with his former allies, Muhyiddin and Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who now leads Pejuang.
According to the report, when asked if he would consider working with them once again, Anwar said PH would only align themselves with those who were against corruption and abuse of power.
“Whoever agrees can come and talk to us. The door is wide open,” the PKR president said during a press conference.
However, DAP chairman Lim Guan Eng said the PH presidential council had previously decided not to cooperate with either PN or Muhyiddin because of the latter’s prominent role in the Sheraton Move, which led to the collapse of the PH government in February 2020 after 22 months in power.
“We cannot cooperate with a person that we cannot trust,” Lim said in a statement.
