KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has rubbished claims by his ex-protege Najib Razak that a sex allegation surrounding a member of his current Cabinet team has been handled differently compared to the scandal in 1998.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has rubbished claims by his ex-protege Najib Razak that a sex allegation surrounding a member of his current Cabinet team has been handled differently compared to the scandal in 1998.
Although he did not name anyone, most observers believed Najib was referring to Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali and then Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who was sacked from government in 1998 before being jailed subsequently for sodomy and corrupt practices. In a blog post titled"Contradiction", Dr Mahathir said he has been accused of contradicting himself in his response to the recent sex scandal compared to events in 1998.
In an earlier post on his personal blog on July 23, Dr Mahathir had repeated his claim that the video clips in the recent scandal were circulated"clearly for political purposes, specifically to block the success of a particular individual". Mr Anwar, the prime minister-in-waiting, is president of PKR, the largest component party of Malaysia's ruling Pakatan Harapan coalition.There has been speculation since that Mr Azmin would leave PKR, but Mr Anwar has dismissed such talk.
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