Perhimpunan diteruskan, kata Zahid Hamidi

PRESIDEN UMNO, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi mengingatkan pengerusi DAP, Lim Guan Eng agar jangan mensabitkan kerajaan perpaduan dengan perhimpunan solidariti untuk Datuk Seri Najib Razak pada 6 Januari ini.

Beliau juga menolak andaian yang dibuat oleh Guan Eng bahawa perhimpunan itu mengandungi unsur ketidaksetiaan UMNO terhadap kerajaan pimpinan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

“Itu pendapat peribadinya. Masa beliau sudah berlalu. Kita yakin dengan pucuk kepimpinan DAP sekarang (mengenai perhimpunan itu).

“Tak perlulah dia mewujudkan pergeseran di kalangan parti-parti kerajaan,” katanya di Putrajaya, hari ini.

Zahid berkata, UMNO akan meneruskan perhimpunan itu.

PAS juga akan mengadakan perhimpunan yang sama di perkarangan kompleks Istana Kehakiman di Putrajaya.

Ia adalah kali pertama UMNO dan PAS ‘duduk semeja’ sejaka runtuhnya Muafakat Nasional pada penghujung 2022.

Rally for Najib will go on, says Zahid Hamidi

UMNO president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has urged DAP chairman Lim Guan Eng not to undermine the allies within the unity government with his remarks about a solitary rally for incarcerated former prime minister Najib Razak.

Zahid dismissed remarks by Lim, who expressed concern about Umno’s sincerity in the unity government led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, calling them merely the Bagan MP’s personal opinion.

“His time has passed. Let’s have some faith in the current DAP leadership (when it comes to the issue of the rally).

“No need to cause friction among allies (in the unity government),” he told reporters after delivering his New Year’s message at the rural and regional development ministry today.

Zahid said Umno will proceed with the solidarity rally next week, as reported by the media.

PAS’s rally will be held on the same day that the Court of Appeal hears Najib’s application on a purported supplementary decree placing him under house arrest.

It would be Umno and PAS’s first time working together since their alliance under Muafakat Nasional ended in 2022.

More than 200 busloads of Najib’s supporters are expected to attend the rally, comprising Umno and PAS members. Bersatu leaders are also expected to attend.

On PAS’s decision to join the rally, Zahid said: “You’ll have to ask them.”

On other members of the opposition joining, the deputy prime minister said he was uncertain, but promised to monitor further developments.

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