KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Friday said that no parliament members from the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) would leave to join the opposition in forming a new government.

    According to Malaysia's national news services Bernama, Badawi made this remark at a news conference after launching the Business Licensing Electronic Support System in Putrajaya, the administrative center of the Malaysian Federal Government.

    The prime minister said that the opposition was banking on BN party members to leave BN, but the Malaysian people would not desert BN, according to Bernama.

    He believed the Sept. 16 government would not happen.

    Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim had repeatedly said that several BN members of parliament would join the opposition to enable the opposition to form the federal government by Sept. 16 this year, according to Bernama.

    Badawi said that the opposition would not have the opportunity.

    BN led by Badawi won 140 of the total 222 seats of the lower house of the Parliament in the March 8 general election this year, 29 seats more than the simply majority of 111 seats to form the current government.

    The opposition won a total of 82 seats.