PETALING JAYA: There is no need for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob to bow down to Perikatan Nasional’s demands for a deputy prime minister post, says an Umno supreme council member.
Isham Jalil said the people wanted the mandate be handed back to them instead of having a deputy prime minister from Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia.
“The Prime Minister does not have to entertain them. If they threaten us, we will fight,” he said, adding that Umno was a grassroots party with over three million members.
Isham also told Ismail Sabri to not bother with the demands of party hoppers, saying that the people’s welfare was the priority.
“Let’s dissolve the Parliament and return the mandate to voters, reset and restore political stability and ensure economic stability as soon as possible,” Isham said in a Facebook post on Thursday (July 28).
Perikatan was earlier reported as expressing disappointment over what they claimed to be a lack of determination and commitment on the part of the Prime Minister to fulfil what had been agreed on between him and Perikatan.
Perikatan also said that they would send a delegation to meet Ismail Sabri to discuss the execution of the terms of agreement signed between them and the Prime Minister soon.
It was reported that Perikatan chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had inked an agreement with Ismail Sabri in August last year on the appointment of a deputy prime minister from Bersatu.
Muhyiddin resigned as prime minister on Aug 16 last year.
