KUALA LUMPUR: The letter by the 12 Perikatan Nasional Cabinet ministers to the King objecting to a general election being held this year never mentioned any retraction of support for Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob as the Prime Minister, says one of them.
“We never said that. It was our objection to holding the snap polls this year due to the fear of floods and to enable the national economy to recover,” Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Datuk Idris Ahmad told reporters yesterday.
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