PKR president Anwar Ibrahim said he can still garner sufficient support to be prime minister after Lim Guan Eng suggested DAP may back Mohd Shafie Apdal for the position.

“He (Lim Guan Eng) was just giving his opinion that if I can’t muster support then it should be Shafie. But I can,” said Anwar during a doorstop in the Api-Api constituency today.

Anwar was commenting on Lim’s remarks yesterday that DAP will back Anwar and Shafie as the opposition’s prime minister candidate. 

The DAP secretary-general said Anwar was his first choice but added that the PKR president should give way to the Warisan chief if the latter had more support.

“We support Anwar to have the numbers but if he can’t, we should give Shafie a chance and the due respect to a first East Malaysian PM,” said the Bagan MP.

Anwar was campaigning for Sabah PKR chief Christina Liew, who is defending the Api-Api seat in the ongoing state election in Sabah.

Meanwhile, Anwar agreed with Shafie there should be a standard operating procedure to allow Covid-19 patients to vote on September 26. 

“Yes, I agree there should be an SOP for Covid-19 voters to vote,” said Anwar. 

The caretaker chief minister had, on Friday, said a separate queue should be provided for virus patients. – September 20, 2020.