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PETALING JAYA: After 18 years of not meeting face-to-face,
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad turned up at the hearing of an application filed by PKR
leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to challenge the National Security Council
(NSC) Act 2016.
Dr Mahathir was seen shaking hands
with Anwar, his former deputy prime minister whom he sacked in 1998 and later
accused him of sodomy.
Anwar’s wife, PKR president Datuk
Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, said in a tweet that the meeting between the two
was their first since Sept 2, 1998.
Not confirming if he was making peace
with his arch nemesis at the hearing at the Kuala Lumpur High Court in Jalan
Duta, Dr Mahathir said he was there as he was interested in the case.
“This is about the NSC Act. As you
know, I have written about the Act in my blog and he is doing the same thing –
trying to stop the Act.
“So I met him and had a long chat
with him about what he’s doing,” Dr Mahathir told reporters outside the
courtroom in Jalan Duta yesterday.
Dr Mahathir declined to say if he and
Anwar were now friends or Opposition partners.
Anwar had filed the suit against the
Government and the National Security Council on Aug 2 to stop the operation of
the Act on grounds that it is unconstitutional.
Communications and Multimedia
Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak was not impressed by the meeting,
calling it “political expediency”.
“It just shows how desperate Mahathir
has become,” he said in a blog post yesterday.
He said Dr Mahathir needed to latch
on to Pakatan Harapan “like a space shuttle needs a rocket” as his new party,
Pribumi, cannot go far on its own.
“He needs to ‘tumpang’ (latch) onto
Anwar and Pakatan. And this is in spite of what Dr Mahathir and Anwar have been
saying about each other for 18 years.
“Mahathir shaking Anwar’s hand was
like what happened back in 1998 one day before Mahathir destroyed Anwar.
“Mahathir’s kiss is a kiss of death,”
Dr Salleh added.
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CAMERON HIGHLAND: Prime
Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak today described a former national leader who
served for 22 years as
quarrelsome.
Najib, who is also the UMNO president, said the leader often criticised former and present leaders as being incorrect in whatever they did.
"Some people have said that Malaysia is a failed nation, what more when this is said by a former leader whom we praised all this while. Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob and I were among the loyal supporters for 22 years.
"We defended him, but today he is prepared to sit together with the opposition. We all understand that this quarrelsome person will always look for someone to quarrel with.
"First, it was with Tunku Abdul Rahman (whom he said) was wrong, Tun Hussein Onn...was wrong, Tun Musa Hitam...was wrong, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi..was wrong and the latest, the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar was also wrong," he said when opening the Cameron Highlands UMNO divisional delegates meeting, here today.
Najib also attracted attention when he challenged anyone who was dissatisfied with the UMNO leadership including himself to contest and challenge him as president in the coming party election.
"If I am to be toppled, then contest in the UMNO election but don't destroy UMNO," he said to loud applause.
In fact, Najib said cynically that if he had intended to become the prime minister and UMNO president for another 22 years, the previous party constitution could have been used.
quarrelsome.
Najib, who is also the UMNO president, said the leader often criticised former and present leaders as being incorrect in whatever they did.
"Some people have said that Malaysia is a failed nation, what more when this is said by a former leader whom we praised all this while. Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob and I were among the loyal supporters for 22 years.
"We defended him, but today he is prepared to sit together with the opposition. We all understand that this quarrelsome person will always look for someone to quarrel with.
"First, it was with Tunku Abdul Rahman (whom he said) was wrong, Tun Hussein Onn...was wrong, Tun Musa Hitam...was wrong, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi..was wrong and the latest, the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar was also wrong," he said when opening the Cameron Highlands UMNO divisional delegates meeting, here today.
Najib also attracted attention when he challenged anyone who was dissatisfied with the UMNO leadership including himself to contest and challenge him as president in the coming party election.
"If I am to be toppled, then contest in the UMNO election but don't destroy UMNO," he said to loud applause.
In fact, Najib said cynically that if he had intended to become the prime minister and UMNO president for another 22 years, the previous party constitution could have been used.
"Under the old constitution, anyone wishing to contest for the
presidency must receive the support from 56 UMNO divisions, (you) think it's
easy to get, even one (division) is difficult.
"But when I became the UMNO president and prime minister, I took measures to amend the (UMNO) constitution and leave it up to the 160,000 delegates who are eligible to vote to decide my fate," he said.
"But when I became the UMNO president and prime minister, I took measures to amend the (UMNO) constitution and leave it up to the 160,000 delegates who are eligible to vote to decide my fate," he said.
“UMNO NOT A ONE-MAN PARTY”
By Cavina Lim and Christopher Tan
TheStar/Nation/Monday,
23 August 2016
SUNGAI PETANI: Umno is not a one-man party and its members must be
dedicated to the party's struggles, says its president Datuk Seri Najib Tun
Razak.
“Umno is not a one-man party where the opinions of an individual have to be accepted by
others.
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Surrounded: Najib being mobbed by a crowd
division meeting. — Bernamaof supporters at the Tasek Gelugor Umno |
Najib said it was important for Umno
members to be dedicated to the party’s struggles if they wanted to succeed.
He also stressed the importance of loyalty
and cited Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah as an example
of a loyal party member.
“I still
remember the time when he was the Kedah Umno liaison committee chairman. When I
told him ‘Please give way to (former
Kedah mentri besar) Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir’, he did not object, but with a sad
face, he responded: ‘I understand your decision’.
“He accepted it
with a calm heart and that’s why in the end, he became Kedah MB,” he added.
Najib also said
he, too, had to work from the ground up.
“I did not
become the party president straight away although I am the (former) prime
minister’s son. I rose from the bottom. I was the Umno Youth division head. I
moved up at each step and in my history, I’ve never fought against other
people.
“I was loyal to
his (Mukhriz’s) father, loyal for 22 years,” he said of Tun Dr Mahathir
Mohamad.
In Penang,
Najib labelled Dr Mahathir as being “obsessed about control”.
“In a recent
interview in Jakarta, I said I only have two options - to be a prime minister
who has to refer to him when making big decisions or be a prime minister whose
work is based on the needs of the people and the party.
“If I choose
the second option, sooner or later, he will attack me. Just like how he
attacked Pak Lah (former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi).
“He attacked Pak Lah because he did not listen to him. When I did not listen to him, he also attacked. How long must we live under such a situation?” he said in his speech at the opening of the Tasek Gelugor Umno division meeting.
“He attacked Pak Lah because he did not listen to him. When I did not listen to him, he also attacked. How long must we live under such a situation?” he said in his speech at the opening of the Tasek Gelugor Umno division meeting.
The Umno division
meeting season has started and the warm reception for Najib is an indication
that his party now sees him as a winner.
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Umno general assembly: No retreat or surrender.
THE idyllic riverside village of Sedili Besar is definitely off the beaten track of Johor.
Umno general assembly: No retreat or surrender.
By Joceline Tan
SundayStar/21 August 2016/Focus/Insight
SundayStar/21 August 2016/Focus/Insight
THE idyllic riverside village of Sedili Besar is definitely off the beaten track of Johor.
And the Kota Tinggi Umno AGM held
there last Sunday was one of the more out-of-the way division meetings Datuk
Seri Najib Tun Razak has been to. His helicopter landed in Kota Tinggi town and
he continued the rest of the journey by road.
The division chief, Datuk Daing A.
Malek Daing A. Rahaman, had pulled out all the stops to welcome the Prime
Minister.
Daing, despite his tanned and rugged
looks, is not your average kampung politician. He is a well-connected
businessman who is associated with companies that have stakes in key projects
around Johor.
His welcoming speech at the Kota
Tinggi AGM was accompanied by a power-point presentation to illustrate that
Kota Tinggi and the neighbouring constituencies of Tenggara and Pengerang would
remain Umno strongholds in the next general election.
He pledged support to Najib,
criticised Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad but steered clear on the subject of Tan Sri
Muhyiddin Yassin.
He also had a long list of requests
for the division – housing for Felda settlers, a new mosque, modern classrooms,
boat licences for fishermen, better water supply and a new bus terminal.
That was probably the moment when
Najib realised why the division meeting was being held in this
middle-of-nowhere place. But that is part of the beauty of Johor where there
are still many places yet to be messed up by greed and development.
A murmur rippled through the audience
when the picture of Najib, the Johor Crown Prince and Daing having tea at Seri
Perdana came on the large screen. The photograph was of the social visit that
Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim had made on the Prime Minister at his official
residence in Putrajaya two days earlier.
Daing’s ties with the Johor palace is
well-known and he is a member of the Johor Royal Court of Advisors, but having
tea with the Prime Minister and Crown Prince was something else.
Last year, before he officiated at
the Muar division AGM, Najib had called on the Sultan of Johor who then took
the Prime Minister for lunch at a Chinese Muslim restaurant. This year, it was
the Johor Crown Prince who called on the Prime Minister days before the Kota
Tinggi meeting.
Gestures like this carry a lot of
meaning in Malay politics and the picture was also aimed at depicting the
cordial ties between the Johor palace and Najib.
The opposition parties are hungry to
capture Johor and their supporters had taken to the Internet last year to claim
that the Johor palace was not with Najib.
But it is quite apparent that Umno is
still very much the preferred choice among the royals and the pro-royals in
Umno have even gone as far as to claim that the palace wants Johor to stand by
Umno.
The message is that the Sultan and
his heir have no problems with Najib and as the Prime Minister pointed out in
Kota Tinggi, Umno was “born on the steps of the Johor palace”.
A year is a long, long time in
politics. At around this time last year, the ground was rumbling under Najib
and it appeared like the 1MDB issue was about to cave in on him.
Dr Mahathir was just months into his
all-out war against Najib while Muhyiddin went on the warpath when officiating
at the Cheras division meeting.
For a while, it seemed like the
Cheras meeting would be the launch pad for the proverbial perfect storm because
the division had also invited Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir to open the AGMs of
the three wings. The Najib camp saw conspiracy written all over Cheras despite
denials by the division chief, Datuk Seri Syed Ali Alhabshee.
But Najib moved quickly and two days
later, Muhyiddin was out of the Cabinet.
The string of Umno division AGMs that
followed was seen as potential land mines. The Najib camp was worried sick,
unsure whether there would be protests, outbursts or resolutions moved against
their boss.
But every politician needs a thick
skin and Najib put on his game face as he went from state to state.
There were mini eruptions at division
meetings in Langkawi, Kuala Kedah, Tampin, Pasir Gudang and Pontian but at the
end of the day, there was not a single resolution passed against Najib.
The worst of the crisis has passed
and Najib has turned the corner.
The reception Najib got in Kota
Tinggi was a far cry from the mood that pervaded when he attended a couple of
division meetings in Johor last year.
“After the big win in Sarawak and the
by-election victories, he is no longer seen as a loser. His party sees him as a
winner,” said a public affairs consultant.
The electoral wins have given Najib
and his party a huge boost and a new level of confidence.
He has taken the Mahathir bull by the
horns and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia has played right into his hands.
The setting up of a new party that is
directly opposed to Umno has provided the basis for Umno leaders to criticise
the 3Ms, to justify to Umno members that Najib did the right thing in bringing
down the axe.
As Muar Umno vice-chief Muhammad
Yazed Muhain put it: “There was sympathy in Johor for Tan Sri Muhyiddin after
he was dropped from the Cabinet. But he has set up a new party that is trying
to take over Umno’s power. How can we support that?”
In fact, the chatter in Johor is that
it may not be smooth sailing for Muhyiddin if he contests Pagoh under his new
party banner.
The Umno division AGM season this
year began on Aug 1 and Najib’s first stop was Sepang where he sounded the
prospect of recapturing Selangor.
“At first, we thought he wanted us to
win back Sepang. But when he started speaking, it was clear he wants us to get
back Selangor,” said Kapar division chief Datuk Faizal Abdullah.
Sepang was a classic case of how Umno
did itself in during the last general election.
The party infighting in Sepang cost
Umno the parliamentary seat as well as two of the three state seats. The blame
fell squarely on former Selangor Umno chairman Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed who
dropped two incumbents whom he regarded as threats to his bid to control the
division.
Mohd Zin’s action led to a mutiny in
the division and PAS won the Sepang seat with a majority of 1,104 votes whereas
the spoilt ballots added to 1,219 votes.
Najib drummed home the point that a
candidate’s wow factor can go a long way but it is crucial that the candidate
is accepted by the division leadership.
“Leaders from all over the country
can help you win in a by-election. But in a general election, a candidate is
totally dependent on the division to campaign. The PM said Sepang is a big
lesson for the party,” said Faizal.
Najib’s appointment of Selangor Umno
chief Tan Sri Noh Omar as Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government
Minister was done with an eye on Selangor. Faizal was recently appointed as
Noh’s political secretary.
“Selangor is still uphill but it is
no longer like trying to climb Mount Everest with all the quarrelling in the
(Pakatan Harapan) parties,” said Faizal.
Najib’s appearances at the division
meetings this year have seen him on the offensive as opposed to last year when
he had to defend himself on the 1MDB issue and appeal to the party to stand by
him.
In Jelebu, Negri Sembilan, he said he
would not budge an inch in the face of attacks and repeated his battle cry from
the last Umno general assembly: No retreat or surrender.
He told his audience he was willing
to correct shortcomings in his government but would not tolerate attempts by
disgruntled politicians who want to bring down the government by illegal means.
In Tangga Batu, the division headed
by Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Idris Haron, Najib touched on foreign
intervention in Malaysia’s politics, a topic that is quite sensitive to Umno
members.
He picked up on what Idris had
implied a few days earlier, that Malaysia could become the new victim of America’s
agenda.
Najib said the fall of Malacca to the
Portuguese is testimony to how a country could lose its sovereignty if its own
citizens are willing to collaborate with foreigners to achieve their personal
agenda.
He did not have to name names, everyone
could tell that his prime target is Dr Mahathir who, in his quest to bring down
Najib, has done almost everything that he used to stand against.
“In the 2013 general election, he
said I was only looking after the Chinese and not the Malays. But who is now
with Lim Kit Siang and holding up his hand?” said Najib when he was in Lumut,
the division headed by Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir.
He reminded the Lumut audience that
Dr Mahathir declared the by-elections in Kuala Kangsar and Sungai Besar to be a
referendum to bring down Umno but the results showed that the people were with
Barisan Nasional.
The Umno division meetings are taking
place amid speculation of a general election by the middle of next year.
The momentum, said Faizal, has started,
and the focus of the Prime Minister will be on the war ahead.
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“Just because he does not like the leader, he goes and forms a
new party that will cooperate with people he has condemned all along. That is
not the answer.” - Datuk Wan Albakri Md
Noor
By Joceline Tan
SundayStar/14 August 2016/Insight/Focus
A DAY after Tun
Dr Mahathir Mohamad was hospitalised, a rumour went around that Datuk Seri
Najib Tun Razak had visited him.
It was untrue,
of course. The fallout between them has been too epic for such social niceties.
Another rumour
had it that it was more than a “chest infection” and that Dr Mahathir had
suffered another heart attack.
That was also
untrue. The man is unwell but he is certainly not as ill as some people imagine
because, on Thursday, he fired off another zinger in his chedet blog,
challenging Najib to a debate before a live audience and to be telecast live.
It was a delayed
response to an interview that the Prime Minister gave to a TV station in
Jakarta where he said the attacks against him began because he refused to run
the government the way the former Premier wanted. He also described Dr Mahathir
as being obsessed with power and all that got under his skin.
Dr Mahathir has
had a hectic schedule the last few weeks. He turned 91 last month and the
familv gathered in Phuket for the occasion. Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali celebrated
her 90th birthday a couple of days after that.
A week later,
the former first lady launched her memoirs, My Name is Hasmah. More
recently, the couple celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, reportedly in
Japan.
It has been one
sentimental milestone after another for the former Premier. At his age, every
anniversary is an extraordinary occasion. But who would have thought he would
be forming a new political party at this grand old age? Even the Japanese
Emperor who is only 83 is talking about abdication.
On Wednesday,
Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin registered the new party which will be known as Parti
Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Parti Pribumi).
“We want to
work'towards a clean and transparent government with integrity. The whole point
is to form a fair Malaysia,” said Muhyiddin.
Another year,
another new political party. Details of the new party are still sketchy but
from what has been revealed so far, Parti Pribumi will be a Malay party that
non-Malays can join as associate members.
Dr Mahathir will
be the chairman, Muhyiddin the president and Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir the
vice-president.
The others in
the pro-tem committee include the former Umno branch chief for Teluk Kemang
Kamarul Azman Habibur Rahman, two former members Ainina Saadudin from Kedah and
Akhramsyah Muammar Ubaidah Sanusi, and activist Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman.
Every new Malay
party is a threat to existing giants like Umno and PAS and especially with a
superstar like Dr Mahathir and big names like Muhyiddin and Mukhriz at the
helm.
But the line-up
is not exactly impressive for a party that aims to replace Umno and especially
given what Syed Saddiq told The Star - that his party would focus on
areas where even PKR and PAS cannot penetrate.
The Malay
heartland seats are tough terrain. It needs foot soldiers, a network, local
know-how, funds and religious credentials.
Syed Saddiq was
one of the speakers during a Mahathir ceramah in a Malay village during the
Sungai Besar by-election. The champion debater went on about the lack of
freedom for student elections in the university and the need for democracy in
the country. He had the credentials and the good looks but there was such a
disconnect with the local environment.
It is apparent
by now that Parti Pribumi does not intend to come under the Pakatan Harapan
umbrella. The talk is that Dr Mahathir will initiate a new coalition that
comprises Malay parties like PAS and the Sabah party that Datuk Seri Shafie
Apdal is working on. This Malay coalition will then work with Pakatan Harapan
to ensure one-to-one contests against Barisan Nasional.
The arrangement
is necessary because PAS and DAP cannot stand each other and PAS refuses to
have anything to do with Amanah. At a more personal level, Datuk Seri Dr Wan
Azizah Wan Ismail refuses to appear on the same stage as Dr Mahathir.
But with the
dual umbrella bodies, the enemy parties can work together without appearing to
do so.
Tengku Razaleigh
Hamzah will find it rather too familiar. He had done the same thing back in
1990. The royal politician got PAS and other Islamic parties to group under
Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah while more secular parties like DAP, Semangat 46 and
PBS grouped under Gagasan Rakyat.
Tengku
Razaleigh’s brainchild did not work well except in Kelantan where Umno was toppled.
It is ironic that the great Dr Mahathir is borrowing from the playbook of his
long-time adversary but, as they say, imitation is the highest form of
flattery.
PKR deputy
president Datuk Seri Azmin Ali has been hinting of a “grand coalition” in the
making and which will be able to take on Barisan Nasional.
Grand coalitions
of this nature need a highly charismatic figure to pull off. Tengku Razaleigh
had that and it is now Dr Mahathir’s turn. But the Kelantan prince had one big
advantage then - he did not have to deal with too many egomaniacs.
Still, these are
early days and, who knows, the copycat version may do better than the original.
Meanwhile, Parti
Pribumi ran into a wall of brickbats and derision in social media especially
over its non-Malay associate membership. The party was trying to be politically
correct but came across as patronising. But the result of an online poll by a Sinar
Harian on the readers’ preference helped to salve the wound - Parti Pribumi
got 36% of the votes, PAS 28%, Pakatan Harapan 27% and Barisan Nasional 2%.
However, the
most glaring thing about Parti Pribumi so far is the lack of excitement and
buzz from ordinary people.
“I grew up with
Dr Mahathir as my PM, he contributed so much but a political party must be built
from aspirations and hope. This party is out for revenge,” said a Malay
professional working in an engineering firm.
Datuk Wan
Albakri Md Noor of the Terengganu Veterans group was a one-time admirer of Muhyiddin but he is
deeply disappointed with what the former Umno deputy president is doing.
“Just because he
does not like the leader, he goes and forms a new party that will cooperate
with people he has condemned all along. That is not the answer,” he said.
The Terengganu
businessman had once asked Dr Mahathir at a forum why he went around talking
about fighting money politics and corruption when he tolerated it in his time
as Prime Minister.
“His answer was
that he had cried and pleaded but people did not listen. He said that during
his time, there was only a little of it but now there is a lot. Then he called
out for the next question,” Wan Albakri recalled.
The 3Ms are
household names but nobody really believes they are capable of bringing reform
and change.
Their claim to
be a party that will fight corruption also appears hollow and hypocritical to
many. The general perception is that Parti Pribumi is a clone of Umno.
That is the
problem when old faces with too much baggage try to start anew. They find that
going down memory lane can be sentimental as well as nightmarish.
The party is
also coming at a time when people are tired and disillusioned with politics.
“When I go
around, I sense that people want to go about their daily life with more
certainty instead of being used as pawns on a chessboard,” said a Penang
politician.
Muhyiddin held tahlil
prayers in Johor Baru on Friday evening in connection with the launch of Parti
Pribumi. It has been a long and difficult year for Muhyiddin and it is not
going to get any easier.
It was around
this time last year that he used the Cheras Umno division meeting to voice his
criticism of Najib and 1MDB. That was the point when the split between the top
two in Umno became official.
Two days later,
he was axed from the Cabinet. Then came the suspension as Umno deputy president
and in June this year, he was sacked from Umno.
Muhyiddin, it
was said, had aspirations for the presidency of Umno after the 2013 general
election and even more so after the 1MDB issue erupted. He reportedly felt that
Najib should make way for him.
But he seriously
underestimated Najib and the hold Najib has over Umno. Moreover, his aspirations
were not matched by groundwork because you do not try to take on the top man
without preparing your army and studying the ground.
Muhyiddin did not get to be the Umno president but he is now president of Parti Pribumi and he is finally his own boss. Or is he, given that Chairman Mahathir is hovering in the background?
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Muhyiddin did not get to be the Umno president but he is now president of Parti Pribumi and he is finally his own boss. Or is he, given that Chairman Mahathir is hovering in the background?
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