{"id":7665,"date":"2021-01-04T01:52:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=7665"},"modified":"2021-01-04T01:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T17:52:39","slug":"ph-is-open-to-cooperating-with-other-opposition-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=7665","title":{"rendered":"PH is open to cooperating with other opposition parties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 &nbsp;&#8212; Pakatan Harapan (PH) is open to any opposition parties wishing to join the coalition in&nbsp;the coming 15th general election (GE15).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said however the opposition party should be prepared to accept the principles championed by PH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-1024x558.jpg\" alt=\"ph\" class=\"wp-image-7666\" width=\"468\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-183x100.jpg 183w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-350x191.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-800x436.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b.jpg 1084w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have no problem in inviting other opposition parties, we will explain the principles we are fighting which is to reject corruption, cronyism and I believe some of them would accept. The question of agreeing or not is their right, we do not impose on others but take an open approach,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was speaking at a media conference after attending&nbsp;a programme \u201c&#8217;Sepetang 2021 Bersama Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim&#8217; here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, commenting on a&nbsp;statement of former Prime Minister&nbsp;Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad recently which&nbsp;claimed PH would not receive the support of the Malays in the coming election if the coalition refused to cooperate&nbsp;with him, Anwar said it is just an assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are open&nbsp;(to cooperate with Dr Mahathir), if he did not&nbsp;want, we would invite other partners, after all we cannot force them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/politics\/news.php?id=1918185\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 &nbsp;&#8212; Pakatan Harapan (PH) is open to any opposition parties wishing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b.jpg",1084,591,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-300x164.jpg",300,164,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-768x419.jpg",640,349,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b-1024x558.jpg",640,349,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b.jpg",1084,591,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b.jpg",1084,591,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b.jpg",1084,591,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b.jpg",1024,558,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/10c449113cac5449c1c72191aa6a06075ff1d16bf378b.jpg",720,393,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665","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=7665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7667,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions\/7667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}