PM: Unacceptable for leaders to live in luxury, many in poverty

It is unacceptable that hundreds of thousands of the rakyat are living in poverty while the country’s leaders are living in luxury on wealth that does not belong to them, said Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

This is especially as this country has achieved independence for more than six decades and yet, as of July 2022, there are about 136,000 households in extreme poverty.

“It’s embarrassing if...