Pakatan Rakyat coalition partners DAP and PKR appear to have different perspectives regarding the
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sharp increase in fuel prices announced by the BN government on June 4.
PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim has gone on record as promising to reduce oil prices if he becomes prime minister. However, DAP seems to be of the opinion that the price rise is unavoidable.
Penang chief minister and DAP Secretary-General Lim Guan Eng today said the party would accept the rise in oil prices provided the government furnishes a mechanism to cushion its impact on the people.
