Can you give us some insight into the Peace Plan brokered by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad?
Dr Mahathir is a fatherly figure. Time was coming up for a general election and he wanted to cool things down. And he succeeded. And of course when things cooled down, I had the opportunity to start talking to the young people. No one thought we could come up with this kind of formula. He had very, very good intentions. In order to cool things down, maintain status quo-lah, that’s all. In some places, some were not happy, other places they were happy, but generally we respected the wisdom of Dr Mahathir. Political struggles are always present in any party. Sometimes, very often, it happens because of dissatisfaction. It was not easy, we needed a cooling-off period when people could sit back and ask why we were wasting our time and getting nowhere. Better to sit down coolly and chart the way forward than continue with the building up of heat which brings no positive result. In those days, even the buying of Nanyang, because of this heat, everything becomes political. And it was not even
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