PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim’s daughter, Nurul Izzah Anwar, has accepted Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s apology.

“I accept the apology and Dr Mahathir’s involvement in the effort to save Malaysia.

“Let (Prime Minister) Najib (Razak) be the last dictator of Malaysia. Let the future be ours,” Nurul Izzah said in a Facebook post last night.

In a surprise move earlier yesterday, Dr Mahathir apologised at the end of a policy speech during his party Bersatu’s annual general meeting in Shah Alam. 

The 92-year-old Bersatu chairman said: ““I, like other human beings, am not alone from saying and doing wrong. Not just today but for all the time that I have been involved in politics.”

The former prime minister, however, did not specify what he was sorry for during a press conference yesterday, other than to say that he has been “involved in politics since 1945” and had made mistakes.

In her post, Nurul Izzah also urged the people to move forward with the spirit of 1998 to win the 14th general election and put an end to Najib’s regime.

Dr Mahathir’s controversial sacking of Anwar in 1998 over corruption and sodomy charges remain a sour point among many Anwar supporters.

Nurul Izzah had previously urged Dr Mahathir’s critics to condemn his deeds but not the man, adding that Pakatan Harapan accepted Dr Mahathir because Malaysia’s future took precedence over past grudges.

All Pakatan component parties, except for PKR, have agreed to nominate Dr Mahathir as interim prime minister and Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as interim deputy prime minister should Pakatan win control of Putrajaya.

PKR had set three conditions for Dr Mahathir’s nomination, namely that Anwar be made prime minister within a year of Pakatan’s federal control, that PKR should be allocated 60 federal seats in Peninsular Malaysia and that Dr Mahathir must agree to institutional reforms. – December 31, 2017.