00:00Former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
00:04claimed that President Umno-Zahid Hamidi's attempt
00:07to start a committal proceeding against him
00:09was done with malicious intent
00:11to delay the ongoing slanderous speech.
00:14Mahathir, 99 years old, said the media interview
00:18after the court proceedings on 5 December
00:21merely repeated his explanation
00:23in a slanderous claim against Zahid in 2022.
00:27Mahathir insisted that he had never
00:29uttered a slanderous statement
00:31or disrupted the administration of the judicial system.
00:35On 7 January, the judge, Enkan Tehchok,
00:39allowed Zahid to start a slanderous proceeding
00:42against Mahathir
00:43after hearing the plea of the judge,
00:45Shahrul Fazli Kamarul Zaman, who represented Zahid.
00:49In the court proceedings by the judge
00:51in his way, Haider Enko, on Monday,
00:54Mahathir stated to Zahid that
00:56his statement on 5 December
00:58was a real and serious threat
01:01as a fabrication and speculative without evidence.
01:04Mahathir appealed to Zahid in 2022
01:07for his claim of using the name Kuti
01:10which imagined that he was not born as a Malay or Muslim
01:13who, according to the former Prime Minister,
01:16intended to slander.
01:18Hailey Izzati reported.
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