PKR chief parliamentary whip Datuk Johari Abdul said he met Muhyiddin on Tuesday with the party’s secretary-general, Rafizi Ramli, and co-elections director, Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, and the subject of the ex-Umno deputy president’s political future was broached. "Yes, we met Muhyiddin, basically just paying a courtesy call after he was expelled from Umno. We discussed national issues and about moving forward, but we did not ask him to join our party, because we are in no position to do that,” Johari told Malay Mail Online. "He told us he feels he has three options: doing nothing and retiring from politics, joining any of the Pakatan Harapan parties, or form his own party and join Pakatan Harapan,” the Sungai Petani MP explained. Johari added that Muhyiddin had asked for approximately a month to decide on his political future, claiming that the latter had said "there’s no reason why we can’t work together.” Last week, Muhyiddin said he was weighing a new political platform from which to continue his criticism of the government, but declined to state if this will be another political party. In a press conference after his and Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir’s sacking from Umno, he said only that the platform should be one that is able to highlight the country’s problems under the current administration. Last month, Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced that the party’s supreme council unanimously agreed to expel Muhyiddin and Mukhriz for their alleged involvement with the opposition, a breach of party rules. Former vice-president Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal was also suspended. Muhyiddin and Mukhriz are both part of a campaign spearheaded by the latter’s father and former prime minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, to demand Najib resign as prime minister. Muhyiddin has said that he was not surprised with his sacking, and that the important point was not their expulsions but the problems facing the country.
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