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Takeover date 'not important now'
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Sun, Sep 14, 2008
New Straits Times
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>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - De facto Pakatan Rakyat leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yesterday sidestepped the issue when asked if the Sept 16 plan to take over the government would be deferred. "It is not a matter of deferment. The priority now is national unity and political stability," he said.
As such, the opposition would be requesting a meeting with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to discuss national security and the future of Malaysian politics, he said.
Stressing that the takeover date was not important at the moment, Anwar said the opposition "had the numbers to move".
"We will move in accordance with the constitutional provisions and the mandate that we want to create.
"We do not want to create political instability," he said at an impromptu press conference at the Parti Keadilan Rakyat headquarters.
Present were DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.
Anwar said he believed that more opposition leaders would be hauled up under the Internal Security Act. The opposition claims the government has a list of 15 people yet to be detained under the act.
Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar has said that no one else would be detained.
Anwar criticised the detention of Seputeh member of parliament Teresa Kok, Malaysia Today blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin and Sin Chew Daily reporter Tan Hoon Cheng.
"The government should stop the crackdown and not abuse the legal process."
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