The prime minister continues his defence of the PKR deputy president, saying there is no need for him to resign from his position as economic affairs minister.
KUALA LUMPUR: Dr Mahathir Mohamad today continued to defend Economic Affairs Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali from allegations of involvement in a sex scandal, saying the PKR deputy president would not have been stupid enough to get mixed up in such an affair and to get caught doing so on camera.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Asia Oil and Gas Conference at the KL Convention Centre here, the prime minister said it was a deliberate attempt to affect Azmin’s political career.“I think somebody is out to bring him down, and nowadays with all kinds of miracles in electronics, you can show a lot of pictures which may or may not be true.”
He was responding to a recent blog post by his media adviser A Kadir Jasin implying that ministers who get embroiled in scandals should resign. Kadir also cited episodes in India, Canada and Britain where leaders implicated in sexual scandals had stepped down.“I know in one country, if a plane crashes in an airfield, the transport minister resigns or throws himself off a building, but that is not our way.”
Over the past weeks, video clips of two men engaging in homosexual acts have gone viral followed by a confession by Santubong PKR Youth chief Haziq Aziz that he was one of the two.Nonetheless, the clips sparked calls for Azmin to reign or to go on leave over the scandal.
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