AMANAH has backed a grand coalition involving all opposition parties not because it wants to sideline opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, said Salahuddin Ayub.

The party deputy president said the coalition is not to launch a new movement but to provide a new hope to the fractured opposition.

“What is this grand coalition? It has no intention of sidelining Anwar as claimed by some quarters recently.

“I know Amanah leaders are those most committed to Pakatan Harapan. We don’t want to be anyone’s fanatical follower (walaun).

“I am not (Amanah president) Mohamad Sabu’s walaun. Amanah is not anyone’s walaun,” he said opening the Amanah youth convention in Malacca today.

A grand opposition coalition was first raised by Pejuang’s pro tem deputy president Marzuki Yahya and Warisan president Mohd Shafie Apdal.

Warisan is an ally of PH while Pejuang is a splinter party formed by Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his supporters following their exit from Bersatu.

The Pulai MP said the PH presidential council had given Anwar the freedom to secure the support for the coalition from other parties.

PH will be the backbone of the grand coalition and Anwar will continue to lead it, he said.

“PH will be the backbone, no one else will lead it. The PH agreement is intact and Anwar remains its leader.” – December 25, 2020.