Gerakan deputy president Oh Tong Keong said the Bersatu and PAS leaders should be working to help address economic issues instead of lending support to a race-based movement.

“We can’t stop them from doing what they want to do because this is a democratic country. But the issue at hand is the people’s economy. The prices of goods are rising but the people don’t have enough money in their pockets.

“(The opposition should) share their ideas with the government so we can have better policies for the people and their salaries will rise. Stop playing politics,” he told FMT.

However, Oh said this was his personal view and he could not speak for Gerakan as a whole.

Gerakan is among the component parties of PN, alongside PAS and the Muhyiddin Yassin-led Bersatu.

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and several other party leaders had signed Mahathir’s “Malay Proclamation” in the presence of the former prime minister to signify their support for his call for the Malays to unite and “save” the community.

Three Bersatu leaders – deputy president Ahmad Faizal Azumu, information chief Razali Idris and Supreme Council member Iskandar Dzulkarnain Abdul Khalid – have also signed the document in their personal capacities.