{"id":12440,"date":"2021-11-23T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=12440"},"modified":"2021-11-23T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:17:14","slug":"defeat-or-not-i-am-not-going-anywhere-anwar-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=12440","title":{"rendered":"Defeat or not, I am not going anywhere – Anwar Ibrahim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kuala Lumpur, Nov 23 — PKR president Anwar Ibrahim has downplayed calls for him to resign as leader of the opposition coalition following Pakatan Harapan\u2019s devastating loss at the Melaka polls, which saw his party lose every single seat it contested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anwar said the buck stops with him when it came to the issue of PH welcoming two former Umno assemblymen into its fold \u2013 which some attributed as a factor to the coalition\u2019s loss in Saturday\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"anwar\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Pakatan Harapan only managed to win five of the 28 seats, leading to Pahang DAP secretary Lee Chin Chen calling for Anwar to step down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anwar, however, brushed it off as an \u201copinion\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is just an opinion, but as I said before, in giving such views, we should not be seen as arrogant<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anwar said one needed to look at the \u201cfacts\u201d and not simply arrive at a conclusion, saying things were not as simple as they were made out to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He further explained that it was Melaka PH that proposed to accept former Melaka chief minister Idris Haron and Nor Azman Hassan as candidates, saying that while some in the coalition did not agree, Melaka PH was confident the duo could help the opposition win the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter a series of meetings, we were persuaded,\u201d he said, referring to Amanah and DAP leaders, adding that they too had their reservations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, in a way, I cannot shirk from that responsibility<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anwar also stated that he had instructed an independent committee to conduct a post-mortem on the Melaka polls, besides directing the Melaka state leadership to carry one out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NMT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kuala Lumpur, Nov 23 — PKR president Anwar Ibrahim has downplayed calls for him to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7059bd7d75036691b17cca037736b8315f85b29d5ec0f-1.jpg",1031,582,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7059bd7d75036691b17cca037736b8315f85b29d5ec0f-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7059bd7d75036691b17cca037736b8315f85b29d5ec0f-1-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7059bd7d75036691b17cca037736b8315f85b29d5ec0f-1-768x434.jpg",640,362,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7059bd7d75036691b17cca037736b8315f85b29d5ec0f-1-1024x578.jpg",640,361,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7059bd7d75036691b17cca037736b8315f85b29d5ec0f-1.jpg",1031,582,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7059bd7d75036691b17cca037736b8315f85b29d5ec0f-1.jpg",1031,582,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7059bd7d75036691b17cca037736b8315f85b29d5ec0f-1.jpg",1031,582,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7059bd7d75036691b17cca037736b8315f85b29d5ec0f-1.jpg",1024,578,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7059bd7d75036691b17cca037736b8315f85b29d5ec0f-1.jpg",720,406,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"Nation<\/a> Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12441,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12440\/revisions\/12441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}