Anwar claims enough support to form govt

Anwar claims enough support to form govt
The Edge - 15 April 2008

KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Rakyat de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim claimed last night that the coalition now had enough support from Sabah and Sarawak to command a slim majority in Parliament and to take over as the government of the day.

However, he said the coalition was not yet prepared to act on it, as it wanted to be in a stronger position, rather than just having a “slim majority” for the control of government to be “meaningful”.

“We are not in a hurry, but for the first time, we are saying we are ready to govern. My personal view is that we must have a stronger and comfortable majority to do that,” he said.

Speaking to reporters, Anwar said the three component parties of Pakatan Rakyat — PKR, DAP and PAS — needed to form a consensus on who would be prime minister on it forming the government.

Earlier in his speech to a gathering at the Sultan Sulaiman Club in Kampung Baru here, he said the coalition had enough support in Sabah and Sarawak to form the government.

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