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KUALA LUMPUR: PKR President Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim says he does not want to get into a dispute with Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad over recent remarks by the former prime minister.
“Why be so busy with Tun Mahathir’s remarks? We will meet again next week.
“I don’t want to fight him,” she told reporters after “An Evening With Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim” here on Sunday (January 3).
He said what Dr. Mahathir said this week may differ from what he might say next week.
Anwar was asked if the Pakatan Harapan coalition would still consider cooperating with Dr. Mahathir’s Parti Pejuang Tanah Air in light of the recent and strained relationship between the two leaders.
He reiterated that Pakatan’s doors would remain open to anyone who defends the coalition’s fight for good governance and against corruption and abuse of power.
“I agreed (to cooperate) not with a particular person or party, but on principle,” Anwar said.
On Thursday (December 31), Dr. Mahathir admitted that he couldn’t get along with Anwar.
Dr. Mahathir had also scoffed at Anwar’s claims that he had a strong, convincing and formidable majority to form the government, sarcastically telling the PKR leader “Hey, pi baliklah (why don’t you come back).
Dr. Mahathir’s response follows Anwar’s statement on Tuesday (December 29) that the decision to work with the former prime minister should be decided collectively by Pakatan.
Ties between Anwar and Dr. Mahathir soured after the “Sheraton Movement” that triggered the collapse of the Pakatan government last February.
The two high-level political figures had gone public and it was believed that they were not speaking.
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