Friday 29 Mar 2024
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KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim returned to Wisma MCA on Sunday (Jan 22), after more than 25 years, to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Anwar, who looked happy when attending the gathering here, said he appreciates MCA’s invitation, as the Barisan Nasional (BN) component is now part of the unity government led by Anwar.

“Thank you to the (MCA) president Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong for inviting Azizah (Anwar’s wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail) and I. It has been a long time; it has been more than 25 years,” Anwar said after attending the MCA Chinese New Year open house here on Sunday.

Besides Wan Azizah, also present were Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil.

Several Cabinet ministers were also in attendance, alongside Wee.

Anwar said that working with MCA will be used to focus efforts on dealing with the development and economic issues of the country, together with the BN component.

Meanwhile, Ahmad Zahid described the prime minister’s return to Wisma MCA to celebrate Chinese New Year this year, as a good sign of closer unity between all races in Malaysia.

“Under the unity government, we have to accept the fact that a new political landscape has been formed; we hope that MCA will invite the prime minister every year,” he said.

“It also brings the message that the country should be rebuilt in the post-pandemic (Covid-19) situation, and we will not be able to do it if there is no unity among us,” Ahmad Zahid said.

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