In a statement yesterday, Azmin welcomed Muhyiddin’s call for institutional reforms and said his aspiration was in line with the stance taken by PKR, other opposition parties, and civil society.

“It is the struggle of the ‘Reformasi’ movement started by Anwar Ibrahim,” Azmin said and urged all political parties and societies, as well as leaders and member of civil society to unite for the cause of reforms.

On Saturday, Muhyiddin had stated that Malaysia’s problems arose from weakened institutions and the concentration of power in the hands of the prime minister. He had called for reforms of the system.

“We must rise above our differences by our one desire to take over a national leadership that is weak,” he said. “It is not right that the people should suffer injustice in the hands of leaders who misuse power.”

PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli, who is MP for Pandan, had made Muhyiddin a personal offer of friendship yesterday in response to the statement, as he would to everyone who subscribed to the reform agenda, and recalled the days when he was a member of the Reformasi movement in the 1990s which sprung up around Anwar Ibrahim after he was ousted as deputy prime minister to Mahathir Mohamad.