"In various closed-door discussions and meetings after GE14 attended by this author, Mahathir was both adamant and consistent that he did not want to see Anwar succeed him as prime minister despite his public statements (to the contrary).
"To Mahathir, Anwar is someone who would neither champion the Malays nor defend the privileges accorded to ethnic Malays by the Federal Constitution.
"Mahathir
also believed that Anwar's plans could be thwarted if the three major
Malay parties, Bersatu, Umno and PAS, were brought together so that a
new Malay-led government could be formed - doing away with the
Chinese-dominated DAP and the multiracial PKR in Pakatan Harapan in the
process."
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Now, at the time of writing, we haven't seen any rebuttal from Dr M himself or any of his supporters. I suspect we will see that soon enough. They are likely to say it's a lie or spin it somehow as being taken out of context etc.
In the absence of any audio recordings of such conversations, we won't be able to know for sure whether what Wan Saiful says is true or not. But we can ask ourselves the following:
a) Does this sound like something Dr M would do?
b) Is it in line with his character to be that way?
c) Does it strike you as true?
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