KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad reportedly expressed his regrets over “antagonising” Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, which he has accused of “trying to seek revenge” now.

In an interview with TIME magazine, Dr Mahathir this may have been exacerbated by the fact that a power transfer in 2020 did not happen after the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government he led collapsed.

“Before he could take over from me, the government collapsed, so I lost my position ... I cannot give to him something that I myself no longer had,” he was quoted saying.

In February 2020, Dr Mahathir resigned as prime minister, after two days of intense speculation that he would lead Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia to exit the ruling coalition PH and form a new government with new coalition partners.

The move came after a PKR faction led by Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali planned to join forces with Bersatu, Umno and PAS to form a new coalition government. They would later form the Perikatan Nasional administration.

In the interview, Dr Mahathir also labelled Anwar as “cut from the same cloth” as Datuk Seri Najib Razak — which he lambasted for the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) corruption scandal.

This comes as the Malaysia’s Anti-Corruption Commission launched several investigations against Dr Mahathir’s sons Tan Sri Mirzan and Tan Sri Mokhzani, and late ally Tun Daim Zainuddin.

“Anwar is a smart operator,” Dr Mahathir said, as he accused those under Anwar’s administration of being corrupt.

TIME noted that Anwar has denied targeting Dr Mahathir and any graft allegations, saying his government is “doing everything we can to combat corruption, no apologies about that”.

The interview also suggested that Dr Mahathir “has spectacularly fallen out with every single one of his successors”, saying the fact begs “uncomfortable questions”.

Dr Mahathir and Anwar’s bad blood started during the former’s first stint as prime minister, when he sacked his then deputy in 1998.

Anwar later faced corruption and sodomy charges in 1998, which resulted in jail time until the convictions were eventually overturned. He would later face a second sodomy charge and convicted in 2015, before given a royal pardon in 2018.

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yes, should get rid of all mahathirism cronies and check his total wealth too

Says the guy who said us back decades vs our neighbors just so he can enrich himself and his own cronies by hiding behind race & religion

the gov collapsed cuz u resigned kek

Gtfo grand grand grandpa, you can't rewrote history

Shouldn't have accused him of being ghey back then.

Still want to manipulate simple minds that he cultivated during his time.

He's beginning to sound like orange man. He never wrong, always other people fault.

sendiri throw letter…

He could have been the hero but choose to be not even good to be the main villain now

Macam nyanyuk. Claim Russia very good, but US cannot be friends with Russia coz that's not how it works. Hahaha.

Maha and the cronies

Lol. Now only the first crony ditahan.

Thanos dah takut ke.

Menyampah betul dgn org ni.
He resign pasal tak nak Anwar jadi PM. Now belit.

A master politician, can spin into it's everyone's fault and mistake except his own. He antagonise Anwar also not his fault.

this atuk is alike with orange Trump that says US shrank in Q1 is as a result of Biden

only boi boi is good enough

No worries, tomorrow he will change his tune to some R&R issue again.

Own self problem blame other people. You can see the real problem.

Actually, this is more reasonable.