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He said the big tent concept is a narrative during the campaign in which what has been decided by Pakatan Harapan (PH) is to strengthen the base of PH to topple Bn in the coming general elections.
“I am an opposition leader so how can I function without the connection with other opposition parties? For example, a meeting on the anti-hopping law, I need to attend.
“This is something people do not understand unless they are an insider,” he said during a press conference at the sidelines of the party’s 16th National Congress today.
He said the people need to know how to distinguish his role as an opposition leader, president of a party, and chairman of PH coalition.
During the press conference, Anwar was also asked on former finance minister Tun Daim Zainuddin and Pandora papers, the millions of leaked documents put together by an international consortium of investigative journalists and made public last October, that allegedly reveal offshore accounts of present and past leaders, including presidents, prime ministers, billionaires and prominent business people.
“I have included this in my speech, if you read carefully, I said people who have squandered millions, and those who benefitted from 1MDB suddenly talk about the third force, the issue of governance, are treating Malaysians like fools.
“Pay back the money that you have squandered to the people, you cannot go around and say we want good governance during the country's corruption when you have benefitted through deceit and squandering from public funds using your position,” he said.
One of the ten names listed in the papers was Daim.
He said it would be up to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) or the Inland Revenue Department to proceed with their investigations over the matter. He also said the rakyat should not be fearful of reporting such matters.
"How many of you are prepared to report this? I doubt it because they are powerful, they have billions at their disposal,” he said.
Commenting further, he said he had people advising him to be the prime minister but with a condition that he should not expose their financial scandals as they are ‘influential’ and ‘powerful’.
“However, I have nothing personal against Tun Daim but he is wrong if he thinks I can be scared for wanting to expose the scandals,” he added.