DAP never proposed replacing Anwar as opposition leader - Kit Siang

KUALA LUMPUR:DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang said the party had never proposed a change of Parliamentary Opposition Leader currently held by PKR President Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

The Member of Parliament for Iskandar Puteri, however, said there is a need to set forth a new direction focusing on the need to strengthen and consolidate all opposition forces through a new national consensus.

"When I met him (Anwar Ibrahim), on Friday, I assured him that the DAP leadership had never proposed a change of opposition leader.

"But the opposition needs to come up with a new direction that focuses on strengthening and consolidating all the forces of the opposition through a new national consensus.

"There must be a new beginning for the Malaysian nation-building process with a new national consensus. Time and tide wait for no man and the time for action for a new national consensus is now," he added.

Last week, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and Amanah president Mohamad Sabu said in a joint statement that Pakatan Harapan needed a political reset following the failure to vote down the 2021 Budget.

The duo said it showed that there has been no shift of allegiance from the Perikatan Nasional (PN) side and that Harapan should stop wasting time with them.

Since then, several groups from Amanah have come up with the idea of a grand coalition to reunite the opposition forces.

Meanwhile, AMK Selangor said it is open to discussing the possibility but insisted that the arrangement cannot include former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

However, PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail was reported to have said that he believed that Anwar could still produce the numbers needed to form a new government via statutory declarations (SDs) or in the Dewan Rakyat.Edit×