The plan to table a vote of confidence for Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's leadership and for him to serve until the end of his five-year term is construed as an attempt to prevent PKR president Anwar Ibrahim from succeeding him.

When this question was posed to Anwar's political secretary, Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak (above), he replied: “Let us call a spade a spade.”..