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Zahid: Many Umno and BN MPs backing Anwar

Zahid: Many Umno and BN MPs backing Anwar
Zahid: Many Umno and BN MPs backing Anwar

BN and Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said "many" MPs from his coalition and party have voiced support for PKR president Anwar Ibrahim to form a new government.

"Umno and BN cannot stop MPs who have chosen to support Anwar, who wishes to be granted an audience with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

"I have been informed that many Umno and BN MPs have expressed support (for Anwar). I respect the position of those MPs," he added in a brief statement. 

Zahid stressed that Umno and BN are not officially part of the Perikatan Nasional coalition.

"Support for the PN government was based on the support of individual MPs only," he added.

Earlier today, Anwar claimed that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's government had collapsed.

According to the PKR president, he had secured "solid and convincing" majority support of the 222 MPs.

He did not name the MPs who supported him on grounds that he must be granted an audience by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong first.

However, the Port Dickson MP suggested that his purported "new coalition" would have the support of some who used to back Muhyiddin.

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is believed to be currently warded at the National Heart Institute (IJN) in Kuala Lumpur.