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Mon, 10/06/2008 - 20:27
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M'SIAN PM TO ANNOUNCE TUESDAY OR ON WEDNESDAY WHETHER HE'LL DEFEND UMNO PRESIDENCY
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 (Bernama) -- Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Monday he will announce Tuesday or on Wednesday whether he will defend the post of Umno president at the party elections in March next year.
"You wait la! Why are you so impatient?" the prime minister told reporters
when asked when he would announce his decision.
He said he would meet with the leaders of National Front (Barisan Nasional)
(BN) component parties soon to inform them of the matter.
"Our colleagues in the BN have already indicated that they would like to be
briefed. They want to be informed of what's going to happen," he said.
Abdullah spoke to reporters at a news conference after chairing a
meeting
of the Biotechnology International Advisory Panel at the Kuala Lumpur Convention
Centre (KLCC), here Monday.
Asked about the large number of candidates offering themselves for the
post of deputy president, Abdullah said: "After a while, some of them will drop
out and probably only one or two will remain."
So far, Umno supreme council member Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi,
vice-president Mohd Ali Rustam and Pulai Umno Division head Nur
Jazlan Mohamed have announced their intention to contest the deputy presidency.
Asked about Umno leaders stating their intention quite early to contest
certain posts, he said that was their right and choice. The Umno divisional
meetings to nominate candidates are scheduled to begin on Thursday.
Abdullah said that before he gave up the post of president under the
transition of power, he would ensure that the objectives of the 2004 BN election
manifesto were fulfilled.
"What I promised, I must deliver," he said.
The United Malays National Organisation, or UMNO, is a right-wing party and
Malaysia's largest political party; a founding member of the Barisan Nasional
coalition, which has ruled the country uninterruptedly since its
independence
Abdullah was also asked by foreign journalists about the nation's image
having been allegedly tarnished by the detention of Member of Parliament for
Seputeh Teresa Kok, Malaysia-Today blog editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin and Sin
Chew Daily reporter Tan Hoon Cheng under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
"This question has been asked before. There must be a good reason for the
minister who is responsible to have taken that particular action.
"There are other countries which have some kind of law which is even
tougher than the ISA. Every country has its own way of looking after its own
security," he said.
Kok and Tan were released a day after their arrest. Raja Petra is still
under detention.
Replying to a question on the resignation of Minister in the Prime
Minister's Department Zaid Ibrahim, who was in charge of law, over the use
of the ISA against the trio, Abdullah said Zaid was not involved in the use of
the ISA.
"The law minister is not involved. It is exclusively the responsibility of
the home minister," he said.
"You wait la! Why are you so impatient?" the prime minister told reporters
when asked when he would announce his decision.
He said he would meet with the leaders of National Front (Barisan Nasional)
(BN) component parties soon to inform them of the matter.
"Our colleagues in the BN have already indicated that they would like to be
briefed. They want to be informed of what's going to happen," he said.
Abdullah spoke to reporters at a news conference after chairing a
meeting
of the Biotechnology International Advisory Panel at the Kuala Lumpur Convention
Centre (KLCC), here Monday.
Asked about the large number of candidates offering themselves for the
post of deputy president, Abdullah said: "After a while, some of them will drop
out and probably only one or two will remain."
So far, Umno supreme council member Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi,
vice-president Mohd Ali Rustam and Pulai Umno Division head Nur
Jazlan Mohamed have announced their intention to contest the deputy presidency.
Asked about Umno leaders stating their intention quite early to contest
certain posts, he said that was their right and choice. The Umno divisional
meetings to nominate candidates are scheduled to begin on Thursday.
Abdullah said that before he gave up the post of president under the
transition of power, he would ensure that the objectives of the 2004 BN election
manifesto were fulfilled.
"What I promised, I must deliver," he said.
The United Malays National Organisation, or UMNO, is a right-wing party and
Malaysia's largest political party; a founding member of the Barisan Nasional
coalition, which has ruled the country uninterruptedly since its
independence
Abdullah was also asked by foreign journalists about the nation's image
having been allegedly tarnished by the detention of Member of Parliament for
Seputeh Teresa Kok, Malaysia-Today blog editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin and Sin
Chew Daily reporter Tan Hoon Cheng under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
"This question has been asked before. There must be a good reason for the
minister who is responsible to have taken that particular action.
"There are other countries which have some kind of law which is even
tougher than the ISA. Every country has its own way of looking after its own
security," he said.
Kok and Tan were released a day after their arrest. Raja Petra is still
under detention.
Replying to a question on the resignation of Minister in the Prime
Minister's Department Zaid Ibrahim, who was in charge of law, over the use
of the ISA against the trio, Abdullah said Zaid was not involved in the use of
the ISA.
"The law minister is not involved. It is exclusively the responsibility of
the home minister," he said.
