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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Umno supreme council Friday meeting cancelled, sec-gen says after Muhyiddin dropped as DPM

Umno supreme council Friday meeting cancelled, sec-gen says after Muhyiddin dropped as DPM


4.5 ~ Umno already a poisoned chalice, WSJ says amid power struggle

Umno already a poisoned chalice, WSJ says amid power struggle


KUALA LUMPUR,
July 30 — Inheriting an Umno plagued with allegations of corruption could
provide Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin only a short-lived stint as Malaysians have
grown impatient over the effects of the party’s politicking on the country, the Wall
Street Journal said today.
In
an opinion piece today hypothesising on the possible outcomes of Muhyiddin’s
shock removal as deputy prime minister this week, the editors of the US-based
newspaper said the Umno leader appeared to be waiting for the party to remove
Najib of its own volition rather than through his machinations.
“If
Mr Muhyiddin sits back and waits for the leadership of an unreformed Umno to
fall into his lap, he may be disappointed.
“It’s
hard to escape the feeling that Malaysia is approaching a tipping point when
its citizens demand a change in the institutions that have held back the
country’s political and economic development,” it wrote in the editorial titled
“Malaysian power struggle”.
Viewing
the decision to remove Muhyiddin from office as part of a brewing fight for the
control of Umno, the WSJ noted that the Umno deputy president is continuing to
lay the foundation for the possibility that he will take over the party in the
event the scandal over 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) is sufficient to force
Najib’s exit.
But
hampering Muhyiddin’s appeal is his own political career, which the WSJ
described as the epitome of the politics of patronage attached to Umno, despite
his recent attempts to appear as reformist with the outbursts against Putrajaya’s
handling of 1MDB.
“It
is also possible that Mr Muhyiddin has underestimated the backlash building
against Umno’s leaders. Already the party’s support is precarious; in the 2013
election the ruling coalition won a majority of seats but lost the popular
vote.
“1MDB’s
mismanagement of US$11 billion (RM41.9 billion) in borrowed funds on Mr Najib’s
watch exposes the rot built up over six decades of one-party rule,” it added.
In
a hastily-convened press conference in Putrajaya on Tuesday, Najib had confirmed
rumours that Muhyiddin will be replaced by Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
The
Umno veteran had during the weekend urged Najib to satisfactorily explain the
1MDB controversy, claiming that he and other ministers were unaware of the
“real facts”.
This
resulted in a rare public rebuke from the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday,
which urged Muhyiddin and other members of the administration not to pre-judge
the ongoing investigations on 1MDB.
A
secret video recording of Muhyiddin was leaked last night, showing Muhyiddin
claiming to guests at his Damansara
Heights
house last night
that RM2.6 billion in 1MDB funds were channelled into the personal bank
accounts of Najib.
Malay
Mail Online was unable to immediately verify the authenticity of the
leaked video, but former minister Tan Sri Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir who was
present at the meeting confirmed the incident captured on camera was genuine.

























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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

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