THE Pakatan Harapan federal government is stable, even if Malaysians in polls feel Putrajaya is not taking the country in the right direction, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.

He played down a November survey conducted by pollster Merdeka Centre, which found that 61% of respondents felt the country was going the wrong way economically.

Dr Mahathir said the results could be because PH “is not very good at telling stories of what it has done”.

“Please remember that this country was very lucky that when there was a change of government, nothing happened, everything went smoothly.

“We are quite stable, I think. We are not fighting one another, or having demonstrations in the streets,” he said, after chairing a meeting of a government special committee on corruption, in Putrajaya ,today.

In the same survey, economic concerns topped the list at 61.5%, when respondents were asked what were the biggest problems facing the country.

This was followed by racial issues (7.5%), leadership (4.2%), social and public safety (3.1%) and politics (1.5%).

Dr Mahathir said the government had a functioning cabinet that could make decisions and many people were investing in the country. 

“But (it’s just that) we are not announcing the investments as they come.

“Yet people say we are not doing well. I don’t know what they mean by not doing well.”

He added that Malaysians had a country that was stable, peaceful and law abiding.  

“That is a great achievement, besides our progress in the economic, social fields and attempts to address disparity.” – January 7, 2020.