PKR president Anwar Ibrahim has denied that the Pakatan Harapan administration practised political hypocrisy in moving a large portion of entities of the Finance Ministry and placing them under Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

"I don't believe so," he told a press conference after attending the Malaysian Economy Symposium held at the Parliament building today.

He said for the transition (period), this may be acceptable since people did not see it as a business arrangement that the prime minister was involved in.


At the same symposium earlier, academic Edmund Terence Gomez had questioned how Pakatan Harapan was managing government-linked companies (GLCs) and government-linked investment companies (GLIC).

He also questioned the need to move all these entities to the Prime Minister's Department when Harapan had already pledged that the prime minister would not also hold the post of finance minister, unlike the previous administration.