Timeline of talk of political realignment
23/02/2020 09:27 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 -- Talk of a possible realignment in the country's political landscape has drawn intense media attention.
Following is the timeline of meetings involving several political parties/leaders which took place today:
9 am - 1 pm
- Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) leaders and MPs gather at Bersatu headquarters at Menara Yayasan Selangor in Petaling Jaya.
- Prime Minister and Bersatu chairman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad arrives for the meeting. Later, Bersatu president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin joins the meeting.
- PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali and PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin seen at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel.
1 pm - 4 pm
- Larut MP Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin and Works Minister Baru Bian seen at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel.
- Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) holds a meeting at The Ritz-Carlton, Kuala Lumpur.
- Dr Mahathir leaves Bersatu headquarters after chairing Bersatu meeting.
- UMNO secretary-general Tan Sri Annuar Musa arrives at Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) for UMNO supreme council meeting.
- Media personnel gather at the gates of Istana Negara.
4 pm - 7 pm
- Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah of PKR arrives at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel. Questioned by reporters, he says it’s “a meeting among friends".
- PKR vice-president Tian Chua arrives at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel.
- More than 20 vehicles seen entering Istana Negara grounds.
- Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan) president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal arrives at The Ritz-Carlton.
- UMNO leaders conclude emergency supreme council meeting at PWTC.
- Zikir, selawat and yasin recitals, and solat hajat (prayer of need) at the residence of PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in Segambut.
- UMNO treasurer Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor arrives at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel.
7 pm - 9 pm
- Bersatu Jeli MP Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed; PAS secretary-general Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan; PAS deputy president Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man and Annuar Musa arrive at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel.
- Sembrong MP Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein of UMNO arrives at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel.
- PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang arrives at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel.
- UMNO president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi arrives at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel.
- Bersatu president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin arrives at Sheraton Petaling Jaya Hotel.
9 pm - 12 midnight
- PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang leaves Sheraton Hotel.
- Reformasi chants are heard at PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s house.
- UMNO president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi leaves Sheraton.
- A few PKR leaders arrive at Anwar's house. Among them are Wangsa Maju MP Datin Dr Tan Yee Kew, Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh, Batu MP P Prabakaran and PKR co-founder Dr Syed Husin Ali.
- PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali gives a doorstep statement to reporters while leaving the hotel.
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Anwar meets DAP, Amanah heads after claiming betrayal
Anwar meets DAP, Amanah heads after claiming betrayal
THE STAR
Sunday, 23 Feb 202011:59 PM MYT
By FATIMAH ZAINAL
KUALA LUMPUR: Before Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has an audience with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Monday (Feb 24), the party president is attending another important meeting Sunday (Feb 23) night.
Following his admission of being betrayed by Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia and a faction within his own party, Anwar is now meeting with other coalition heads.
Anwar's political secretary Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak said that the closed door meeting with DAP and Parti Amanah Negara leaders at an undisclosed location started at 11pm Sunday.
Meanwhile, Farhash said on Monday (Feb 24) at 2.30pm, Deputy Prime Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail is expected to be with Anwar for their audience with the King.
"I think the current political climate will be discussed in the meeting with the King," he told reporters.
He said that the King has the discretion to decide on what was best for the country, whether it be a "backdoor government" or a "clean mandate".
"But right now it looks like the status quo will remain.
"He is calm (Anwar), the people seem to be with us, we have the moral high ground.
"Even in the latest Pakatan Harapan presidential council meeting, he gave space for Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to remain as Prime Minister for as long as he wanted.
"I don't see the problem here," said Farhash at Anwar's house at Bukit Segambut here Sunday night (Feb 23).
On talk that several PKR leaders have left the party to join a new coalition with Bersatu, Umno and PAS, Farhash said that this was not true.
"Not yet, not yet. But tonight, some have come out in the open to show their true colours," he said.
Earlier, PKR deputy president and Anwar's rival Datuk Seri Azmin Ali was branded a traitor by fellow party leader, Kapar MP Datuk Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid.
"This is the real traitor who has betrayed the people's mandate which gave the support to Pakatan. They (the traitors) have entered through the back door.
"I'm confident that the traitor will be punished by the people, who have given us the mandate," Abdullah Sani told reporters at Bukit Segambut here Sunday night (Feb 23).
He was on his way out of Anwar's residence here after attending a meeting between Anwar and PKR leaders aligned to him.
When asked who was the traitor, Abdullah Sani simply answered,"Azmin Ali" then later added that there were other traitors within PKR and described them as "two or three mosquitoes that we will kill".
Earlier, PKR lawmakers including Wangsa Maju MP Tan Yee Kew, Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh, Balik Pulau MP Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik, Batu MP P. Prabakaran and also PKR veteran Syed Husin Ali were spotted entering Anwar's house after 10pm for a meeting.
Tan, who left before 11pm, refused to divulge details of the meeting and said to wait for Anwar's official statement on the matter.
The media has been camping outside Anwar's residence from as early as 3pm Sunday amid reports of a new political landscape in the offing.
It was reported that Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was executing a plan to form a new government with Azmin's PKR faction, Umno and PAS.
