PUTRAJAYA: PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has stressed that there are no problems between him and Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad regarding the handing over of the prime minister’s post.
Anwar, the Port Dickson Member of Parliament, said questions on the date of handing over and related matters were between the two of them.
“The prime minister’s (Dr Mahathir) important reply is that what has been signed, promised will be fulfilled.
“We should give space to whoever is the prime minister to administer effectively without being disturbed by a timetable on stepping down,” he told a media conference after attending the presentation of cheques for cost of living allowance for national laureates here today.
Also present were Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng, Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail and Deputy Education Minister Teo Nie Ching.
Anwar said that to him and Dr Mahathir, the issue of transfer of power had been settled and they even met ‘on a weekly basis’.
“There is absolutely no problem in so far as the transition is concerned,” he said.
Asked on Dr Mahathir’s statement that he would hand over the post within three years and not two as reportedly agreed to by Pakatan Harapan, Anwar said: “That is only an assumption.” – Bernama
