KUALA LUMPUR - Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders are meeting Malaysia’s King on Wednesday morning as the country waits to see who will lead the next government.
BN chairman Zahid Hamidi was seen entering the Palace gates at around 10.45am. He left 40 minutes later, accompanied by BN deputy chairman Mohamad Hasan.
Pakatan Harapan (PH) chief Anwar Ibrahim and his Perikatan Nasional (PN) counterpart Muhyiddin are deadlocked in the race to be Malaysia’s next leader after Parliament was hung following last Saturday’s closely fought election.
Support from BN’s block of 30 MPs can allow one of them to form the government. But it failed to reach a decision in an emergency meeting on Tuesday night.
Although there was no official statement from the Umno-led pact, leaders leaving the talks said they had sought to postpone the royal summons for their 30 MPs to be individually interviewed on whom they supported as prime minister.
The Straits Times has learnt that Umno president Zahid and vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob, the caretaker Prime Minister who led government before polls were held, will seek to inform Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Shah that their coalition’s stance remains unchanged: they support no candidate and will stay in opposition.
Representatives from Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) have also been summoned for an audience after BN’s. They had initially pledged their 23 MPs to PN chairman Muhyiddin Yassin but later said they would abide by the King’s decision.
Although former premier Muhyiddin claimed on Tuesday evening that he had the support of 115 MPs in the 222-strong legislature, this ostensibly includes members of BN, whose leadership insists that all its MPs remain neutral.
But well-placed sources have told ST that even as at Tuesday, as many as 11 BN MPs want to back Tan Sri Muhyiddin, which would be sufficient to take him past the simple majority mark of 112.
The King had decreed on Tuesday that no MP had the majority and summoned both Datuk Seri Anwar and Mr Muhyiddin to propose a unity government.
Although former deputy premier Anwar said he “accepted the spirit” of such an arrangement, Mr Muhyiddin rejected the proposal outright, declaring that his PN had decided “from the very beginning” that it would not work with PH.
PH won 82 seats in last Saturday’s vote, making it the largest coalition. However, while PN took just 73, parties from east Malaysia supply at least another 29, bringing Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia president Muhyiddin across the 100-mark.
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2022-11-23 01:16:50Z
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