Mukhriz: No point having PM-Dr M meeting now - The Star

By Meera Vijayan

JOHOR BARU: A meeting now between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his predecessor Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad will be futile, as old issues remain unresolved.

Dr Mahathir’s son, Datuk Mukhriz said he did not believe the meeting would be of any use as there were broken promises from the dialogue between the two in 2006.

Mukhriz said that after the meeting when his father had explained where the present Government had gone wrong, Pak Lah had immediately said he himself would address all the issues brought up.

“Shortly after that, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said Proton would answer issues concerning it, but at the end of the day, none of these issues were ever addressed,” he said.

Mukhriz said if the issues had been addressed at that point, perhaps the general election results would have been different.

According to him, the reason Barisan Nasional faced such heavy losses in the elections was because people were not encouraged to speak out, regardless of whether they were from the Opposition or within the party.

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