KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 29): DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang said he is increasingly confident that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government will last five years, given the vote of confidence in Parliament last week and the various commendable initiatives in the first month of the Anwar unity government.
However, in a statement on Thursday (Dec 29), Lim said the ministers and leaders of the Anwar unity government must always be conscious of the lesson of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government and carry out institutional reforms in the early months of the government
He said every minister should consider what are the institutional reforms that he or she can carry out in the seven-week Dewan Rakyat meeting from Feb 13 to March 30, 2023 to make it the most important and historic parliamentary meeting in the history of Malaysia.
“Malaysia has a big chance under [the] Anwar unity government to rebuild Malaysia into a first-rate world-class plural nation — don’t spoil it,” he said.
Lim said only time will tell whether the Anwar unity government will last five years.
“This is one of the issues to be fought out in the political battlefield to decide whether the Anwar unity government can last five years,” he said.