PUTRAJAYA: The Prime Minister has the absolute prerogative to reshuffle the Cabinet, says Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
“It’s entirely up to the Prime Minister to reshuffle the Cabinet if he wants to.
“We shall wait and see if it really happens,” he said in reference to a report at a media portal saying that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is expected to reshuffle the Cabinet after the upcoming six state elections.
Quoting a PKR source, the report said that a “clean-up” of senior civil servants was expected to be done first.
Ahmad Zahid, who was at the closing ceremony of the National Training Week programme here yesterday, was asked by reporters about the report.
To a question, he said all ministers are performing, as he sees it.
On another matter, Ahmad Zahid said he would leave it to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Com-mission (MACC) to investigate allegations against Perikatan Nasional chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
Muhyiddin had said that Perikatan was mulling legal action over Anwar and Ahmad Zahid’s remark that implied the coalition had used gambling money to fund its election campaign.
When asked about Muhyiddin’s intention to sue, Ahmad Zahid said: “Me? Why me?”
He added that since the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said had issued a statement on the matter, he would leave it to the MACC to conduct an investigation.
Azalina said in a written reply in Parliament on Thursday that the MACC could not confirm claims that Perikatan had used gambling proceeds in the last general elections. As such, she said no investigation papers were opened.
The following day, Muhyiddin said Azalina’s statement proved that there was no truth to such allegations about Perikatan.
