Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim today called on the former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin and said that as a veteran politician he should not have made inflammatory statement and promote feelings of ill-will during the 15th General Election. In his reply to Muhyiddin’s defence statement against his defamation suit, Anwar said his statement during an election campaign in Padang Serai in GE15 was defamatory and malicious.
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In a statement, Anwar said, “Muhyiddin ought to have known that it is undesirable to make public statements that have a tendency to inflame and promote feelings of ill-will, discontent or hostility between persons and candidates, to induce any elector or voter before, during and after election, more so when such statements are defamatory and malicious in nature.”
He further said that it was not difficult for Muhyiddin to access the publicly available parliamentary Hansard record before making the allegation.