KUALA LUMPUR: The draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) for allocations for the opposition is not final and can be discussed, says Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil.
"Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof has said it is a draft, it can be discussed," he said in response to the opposition's criticisms of the purported conditions set for the MoU.
"When I was in the opposition, we discussed (an MoU) with the then prime minister (Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob), we did not discuss things in the media.
"If they (the opposition) followed what we did before and discussed it with us, there would be no problems. That is the forum, not in the media."
Yesterday, Perikatan Nasional chief whip Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan had said the obligations included the coalition's members of parliament supporting the government until the end of the 15th parliamentary term and declaring their assets.
The obligations also required the MPs to comply with the 3R (race, religion, royalty) guidelines.
However, Takiyuddin did not disclose all seven terms but mentioned that they would decide whether to accept them before the next parliamentary session.
Fahmi, who is government spokesman, also refuted accusations made by Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor that federal ministers and deputy ministers were politicking against opposition-led states.
He said the claim was false, emphasising that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had visited opposition-led states, identified their issues, and expedited the processes to resolve them.
"The prime minister was not merely visiting and identifying issues in opposition states; he was resolving them quickly and expediting projects, as seen in Sungai Golok, where certain matters were accelerated.
"What I see is the Kedah menteri besar playing politics," he told reporters in his weekly post-cabinet briefing.
On Monday, Sanusi claimed that the unity government's ministers and their deputies were still engaging in political manoeuvring against states led by PN.
He had said that despite the opposition's openness to collaboration, the ministers and their deputies continued to play politics.