(Bernama) - Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad yesterday described the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition as an informal arrangement where member parties moved in different directions after last year’s general election.
“The opposition is not an alternative, unfortunately. So, it will be a disaster for this country if the opposition wins and forms the (federal) government,” he said when asked to comment on the current infighting among PR members in Selangor.
“They will not be administering the country but they will be fighting each other. PAS will fight against DAP, DAP fights against Keadilan (and so forth),” he said when visiting NGV Tech Sdn Bhd’s dockyard at Sijangkang near here.
When asked whether the Selangor Select Committee for Competency, Accountability and Transparency (Selcat) enquiry into alleged corrupt practices was destructive to Barisan Nasional (BN), Dr Mahathir said: “They can enquire... if Barisan does something wrong, it should be exposed. I know there was an enquiry about me some years back after I stepped down to find out whether I stole money or not, but they didn’t find anything.”
He added: “If they want an enquiry to find out whether past leaders had been doing wrong things, it is the right thing to do.”
Otherwise, the former prime minister said, when past leaders did something wrong and nothing happened to them upon their retirement, then a crop of new leaders would be led to believe that if they did something wrong, nothing would happen to them later because there would be a cover-up.
The Selcat enquiry had also questioned district officers on how allocations of RM500,000 for each state assemblyman by the previous state administration were disbursed within the first two months of 2008 before the 12th general election in March last year.
On the forthcoming Bagan Pinang by-election, Dr Mahathir stressed that the quality of the candidate was very important.
Asked whether he was upbeat on BN’s chances in Bagan Pinang, he believed that BN could retain the seat if it fielded a candidate who was generally accepted by the people.
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