KUALA LUMPUR — Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is scheduled to meet Malaysia's Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on Monday (Feb 24) morning, as rumours of a new government emerged on Sunday.

Online news portal Malaysiakini quoted an anonymous PKR leader saying that the meeting is to take place at the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya at 9.30am.

“Anwar will meet Mahathir at Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya by 9.30am,” the party leader said.

The source, however, did not reveal the topic of discussion between the two leaders.

After a day of unexpected meetings on Sunday among parties implicated in a plot to form a new government, speculation was rife that a replacement for the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government would be announced last night.

However, an aide to Dr Mahathir said none would be made, and the Malaysian Prime Minister did not show up at the Sheraton Hotel in Petaling Jaya where Opposition members and those aligned to PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali were gathered, purportedly for a dinner among MPs.

At noon on Monday, Mr Anwar is scheduled for an audience with the King of Malaysia, who already met on Sunday with the leaders of six political parties that are believed will form this new and still-unnamed coalition.

Mr Anwar’s political secretary, Mr Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak, told Malay Mail last night that the meeting had been scheduled prior to yesterday’s developments and was meant to update the Agong on political developments.

However, the PKR president will likely be forced to address events yesterday that he categorised as a “betrayal”.

While Mr Anwar described the betrayal as complete last night, it is still unclear if the parties in the purported plot have the numbers to replace PH. MALAY MAIL