PRIME Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad today said he did not wish to get involved in PKR’s affairs, saying there were other matters that needed his attention.

“I don’t need to think about this. I have lots of other things to think about,” he said, when asked if PKR was a liability to Pakatan Harapan.

Earlier, 28 central committee members and lawmakers hit out at PKR president Anwar Ibrahim for not standing by his deputy Mohamed Azmin Ali, who is embroiled in a sex video scandal.

The senior party leaders – all aligned to Azmin – signed a statement telling Anwar he should be condemning the gutter politics employed to take down political leaders instead of suggesting that Azmin resign if the veracity of the sex video is established.

“We are of the view that his statement is inappropriate and based on speculative assertions,” they said in the statement.

Anwar told reporters at the Parliament lobby yesterday that Azmin should resign from the cabinet if it is found that the economic affairs minister is the person in the leaked sex videos.

When asked whether the PKR debacle would delay the handover of power (to Anwar), Dr Mahathir said succession is still some time away. 

“That is in the future. We will cross the bridge when we get to it.”

Zuraida Kamaruddin, one of the signatories of the statement chiding Anwar for his treatment of the sex video scandal, today urged the members to “heal the cracks” in the party.

Internal frictions, which have long plagued the party, have threatened to boil over with the eruption of the new sex scandal implicating the party no. 2 Azmin Ali. – July 18, 2019.