Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad reiterated that Pakatan Harapan did not expect to win the last general election and therefore made promises in its manifesto which were difficult to deliver.

“We thought we were going to lose. We put in tough things in the manifesto so that if we lose, the (BN) government would be in a quandary (after winning the polls).

“But now, we are the government. We are victims of our own manifesto,” he said during his keynote address to the Lawasia conference in Petaling Jaya this morning.

Mahathir pointed out that repealing laws which involved the Federal Constitution required the support of two-thirds of the members of the Dewan Rakyat.