Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
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Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has expressed his wish to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as Malaysia’s sixth Prime Minister.
“I do not know whether I am invited. But if I am invited, I would like to go,” he said when asked about the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin giving his consent for the ceremony at Istana Negara on Friday.
The former prime minister also said he would support any move by Najib to introduce a leaner Cabinet as there was no necessity to have so many people.
“We’ve had an expansion of the Cabinet under (Datuk Seri) Abdullah (Ahmad Badawi)’s leadership but I think that’s not necessary,” he told Malaysian journalists here on Wednesday before flying home.
Dr Mahathir had earlier given a talk on The Alternative G20 Agenda: Real Financial Fairness at the Royal Commonwealth Society before meeting Malaysian students at Malaysia Hall in the evening.
He said any plan to merge several ministries to address redundancy would be good as “prime ministers have been using this kind (of posts) as a reward for support.”
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