THE “carrot and stick” approach employed by Perikatan Nasional (PN) to induce lawmakers to switch sides is straight from the playbook of former Bersatu chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.

The PKR chief organising secretary said the former prime minister used the same tactics to persuade Umno MPs to join Bersatu when Pakatan Harapan (PH) was in power.

“It is the same method. I think somewhere in (Prime Minister) Muhyiddin Yassin’s cupboard, (there’s) a Bersatu playbook that says this is how you run things,” the Setiawangsa MP said in an exclusive interview with The Malaysian Insight. – 19 Mac, 2021.