KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Harapan leaders say they will meet to discuss concerns over the possibility that the prime minister’s act of holding two ministerial portfolios goes against their election manifesto. Concerns were raised following Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s announcement on Thursday that apart from being Prime Minister, he would also be assuming another cabinet post, that of Education Minister. “But I still have to check this because as far I remember, the manifesto that was agreed upon earlier was that the Prime Minister cannot hold the Finance Ministry portfolio. Apart from PM cannot be FM (Finance Minister), (I am) not aware that PH manifesto also proposed that a PM could not hold another portfolio." We thought that he should not be holding the finance portfolio simultaneously as a prime minister," Malaysiakini quoted a PKR source as saying.

Source: New Strait Times May 17, 2018 14:48 UTC