In a statement, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and Amanah president Mohamad Sabu said they had consistently supported Anwar as prime minister and would continue to do so.
“The six-month transition shall be documented in writing, signed by all party leaders and publicly announced,” they said.
They added that the only “realistic option for success” was to combine the strengths of PKR, Amanah, DAP, their Sabah-based ally Warisan and the four MPs sacked from PPBM alongside Mahathir.
Yesterday, Anwar said there were feelings of mistrust among PH leaders about Mahathir being named as the coalition’s prime ministerial candidate again in the event of a return to federal power.
However, Mohamad and Lim said all parties must try to find common ground to reclaim the mandate given to them in the 2018 general election.
“This political journey has taken 22 years. We can afford to wait another six months to see Anwar installed as the 10th prime minister of Malaysia.
“This is a sacred mission to uphold democracy and the value of the millions of Malaysians who voted for a change of government to get rid of a corrupt and kleptocratic administration involving tens of billions of US dollars,” they said.
Adding that both their parties had worked hard over the last three months to find a common ground acceptable to all, they voiced hope that PKR and Mahathir, together with Warisan, would not drift further apart.
They also said there should be “no transactional deals” with former PH leaders whom they said were responsible for “deposing an elected PH government and bringing in an unelected Perikatan Nasional government”.
Earlier today, PKR Youth’s vice-chief Syed Badli Shah Syed Osman said there was no guarantee that Mahathir would not switch sides to “traitors” in his quest to return to power for the third time.
He said Mahathir himself was struggling to get support from MPs, adding that he was unsurprised by rumours of secret talks between Mahathir and “traitors”, a term PKR uses for its former deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali and those who supported him in the February coup that brought down the PH government.
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