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Published on: Friday, February 05, 2021 By: Malay Mail Text Size: Kuala Lumpur: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong had not proposed PKR’s Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to be interim prime minister in February 2020, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said (pic) today. The former two-time prime minister disputed the assertion made by former attorney general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas in his newly-released memoir My Story: Justice in the Wilderness, calling it “nonsense” that the Agong wanted Dr Wan Azizah who...

PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (pic) could not be acting Prime Minister or interim Prime Minister because the Pakatan Harapan government had already collapsed, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The former prime minister said this in response to claims that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong had proposed Dr Wan Azizah to replace him and be appointed as interim prime minister in February 2020. “The Pakatan government had lost. The Agong could not appoint Wan Azizah, the Deputy Prime Ministe...

30 January 2021 The former Attorney General, who resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan administration in March, has kept his counsel till now about what he observed at the heart of government as the coalition collapsed. At the climax of an about to be published memoir, spanning his career as a reforming barrister in Malaysia, he reveals a series of previously unknown facts that shed crucial light on the significance of those events. The chapter, which Tommy Thomas says it ...