Pakatan Harapan as a legal entity does not exist, but what does exist is merely an alliance between Dr Mahathir Mohamad and four opposition parties, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak.

Some of the opposition leaders, he said, were MPs while Mahathir was not.

&ldquo;The current opposition are the very same people who wanted to remove Mahathir when he was prime minister for 22 years.

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&ldquo;Now they are saying that they want Mahathir to be back in power. Do they think people would believe they are not strange bedfellows?

&ldquo;The common perception is that Mahathir wants to use the opposition to put his son Mukhriz back on the political track, while the DAP-led opposition wants Dr Mahathir to deliver the Malay votes,&rdquo; he wrote on his blog.

Salleh pointed to Mukhriz refusing to <a href="https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/408298">rule out</a> a future bid to become prime minister.

&ldquo;So there is really no Pakatan Harapan per se. It is more of a &lsquo;pakatan wayang&rsquo; (drama) to deceive the people about their true intentions,&rdquo; he added.

- Bernama

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