| There are ongoing attempts to bring Dr Mahathir Mohamad on board the Perikatan Nasional coalition, the former prime minister has revealed.interview yesterday, Mahathir said the efforts did not work as he cannot work with some "criminals" who support the government.not only then"I have made promises to the people. I promised the rakyat that we wanted to bring down Najib. So, I cannot work with Najib.
Najib was convicted by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur on seven criminal charges last year and is now appealing his conviction in the Court of Appeal, while the others are still at various stages of their trials.in February 2020, after only 22 months in power, following a political coup dubbed the Sheraton Move engineered by a group of MPs including from Bersatu, in which Mahathir was the chairperson.
From the collapse of the Harapan government, Mahathir had always maintained that he was against the plan to work with "kleptocrats", referring to the Umno leaders who are facing criminal cases in court."Since the beginning, I was the candidate . That was how Hamzah Zainudin could get statutory declarations from Hadi , Najib and the others.
"So, when Muhyiddin knew I did not want , he volunteered himself. So he became the prime minister," Mahathir said.Malaysiakini
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