PETALING JAYA: Gerakan president Dominic Lau said there are PKR and Pakatan Harapan leaders who want to see Mohamed Azmin Ali join the former Barisan Nasional component party.
At a press conference in Sungai Petani, Kedah, Lau declined to provide specific details, only saying the party received information that Azmin wanted to join them, prior to the release of the sex video allegedly implicating the economic affairs minister.
Azmin has strongly denied allegations that he is one of the two men in the video.
“I don’t know if they represent Azmin but there are leaders from PKR, other PH parties and NGOs which want to see Azmin join Gerakan,” he said
He said there were no direct talks between Gerakan and Azmin, and when asked how the PKR leaders had relayed the information to him, whether in person or through a phone call, Lau declined to reveal details.
He also refused to say if any leaders came to see him after the gay sex video went viral.
“Whoever agrees with Gerakan’s ideology, our belief in defending the people and developing the country, we welcome them.”
This, he said, was his response when the rumours of Azmin joining Gerakan first emerged and this had not changed after the release of the video.
Yesterday, Azmin’s political secretary, Hilman Idham, denied that the PKR deputy president will leave the party, stating such slander was created by those who had lost in the party polls.
“Impossible,” he told FMT when asked on rumours that Azmin will leave PKR soon, especially after a rift between him and party president Anwar Ibrahim after the release of the sex video.
Speculation over Azmin leaving the party has been ongoing this week, especially after PPBM opened its membership to non-Malays as associate members.
Some have claimed this move was to pave the way for Azmin to leave the party and for his non-Malay supporters to join as associate members.
