KUALA SELANGOR • Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said he believes the opposition will be greatly helped by Indian and Chinese votes in the upcoming general election..
KUALA SELANGOR • Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said he believes the opposition will be greatly helped by Indian and Chinese votes in the upcoming general election.
The chairman of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) opposition alliance said their challenge would be in wooing Malay support.
Speaking to reporters after a Pakatan ceramah in the Selangor township of Bestari Jaya on Sunday, Tun Dr Mahathir said this was why the government has redrawn electoral boundaries by moving voters around to ensure that the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) remains in power.
He claimed that Prime Minister Najib Razak wanted enough Malay representatives to form the government without the participation of the Chinese minority.
“Even PAS has said that there should not be non-Muslims in the government,” Dr Mahathir said, referring to a recent comment by Parti Islam SeMalaysia president Abdul Hadi Awang on an all Malay-Muslim Cabinet.
The opposition has claimed that the Election Commission, which is under the Prime Minister’s Department, has quietly redrawn boundaries where BN candidates had won or lost marginally by adding more Malay voters in.
