DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang wondered aloud yesterday as to how both the Prime Minister and his deputy could be out of the country this week.
“Why is the 30-year standing rule or of longer vintage that both the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister should not be out of the country at the same time being broken this week?” he said at a press conference in Parliament yesterday.
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Popularity: 9% [?]
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi will not defend the Umno presidency.
He told leaders of the Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties here today that he will quit as party president by March next year.
This will pave the way for Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who is favoured to win the party presidency, to take over as Prime Minister if BN remains in power then.
“I will not stand for the presidency of Umno in the coming elections. My current term as Umno president ends in March next year,” he told reporters after the meeting.
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Popularity: 6% [?]
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi says he will not reconvene Parliament next Tuesday, as demanded by Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
“I do not see any reason to call an emergency sitting as we are sitting after Ramadan,” he said after today’s Umno supreme council meeting here.
Earlier today, Anwar had demanded the PM reconvene Parliament next week to vote on a no-confidence motion against Abdullah’s administration.
The demand comes just days after Anwar missed a self-imposed deadline on September 16 for his Pakatan Rakyat (PR) alliance to topple the Barisan Nasional (BN) government through mass defections
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In a minor Cabinet reshuffle today, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi named his deputy Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak as finance minister.
Abdullah, who was the finance minister, will take over Najib’s defence ministry portfolio.
In making the announcement yesterday, Abdullah and Najib also said the transition plan in which the two leaders have agreed on remains intact.
By giving his deputy heavier responsibilities, the PM will hope to put an end to speculation over the transition plan which will see Najib taking power by 2010.
The swap in portfolios was announced after today’s Cabinet meeting.
Najib has also been made deputy chairman of Khazanah Nasional.
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Popularity: 5% [?]
Below are highlights of the 2009 Budget, tabled by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the Dewan Rakyat on 29 August 2008.
ENSURING THE WELL BEING OF MALAYSIANS
Popularity: 7% [?]
This morning the Malaysian Election Commission announced nomination and polling day for the by-election that I will contest in Permatang Pauh. I look forward to the campaign period to meet with voters in my home constituency. I invite all Malaysians to join me in this historic campaign to bring forth a New Dawn for Malaysia as we work together to build a more peaceful and prosperous nation.
At the same time we would reiterate our longstanding concerns about the integrity of the electoral process. To this date, the evidence of phantom voters and ballot box stuffing has yet to be addressed by the Election Commission. The poor handling of the use of indelible ink in the General Elections gives all Malaysians, particularly those in Permatang Pauh, reason to be concerned about the conduct of polling this month. I urge the Election Commission to take this opportunity to restore some credibility to its reputation by fulfilling its constitutional mandate to ensure that voting is fair and unbiased. Read the rest of this entry »
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Satu laman web Warkah Untuk PM telah dilancarkan sebelum Pilihan Raya ke 12 yang lalu. Laman web ini mempelawa orang ramai untuk mengemukakan maklumbalas tentang sokongan, harapan, cadangan dan aduan terhadap prestasi dan ikrar kerajaan serta kepimpinannya dalam menjamin keselamatan, keamanan dan kemakmuran rakyat dan negara.
Di Warkah Untuk PM ini disediakan satu borang maklumat untuk memudahkan mereka yang ingin memberi maklumbalas kepada Perdana Menteri dalam bentuk sokongan, aduan, harapan dan cadangan berkaitan prestasi dan ikrar Perdana Menteri serta kepimpinan Negara dan Kerajaan Negeri untuk kemajuan rakyat dan Negara. Borang ini disediakan dalam empat bahasa utama di Malaysia.
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Popularity: 20% [?]
Raja Petra Kamarudin has made a statutory declaration alleging that Deputy Prime Minister Najib’s wife was at the murder scene of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Najib and Rosmah have repeatedly denied they are linked to the killing of Altantuya, describing the widely-known allegations was nothing more than ‘slander and concocted stories’.
Raja Petra said he did not lodge a police report on the latest allegation because there was no action over a police report he had lodged in a separate case in 2001 when he was allegedly beaten up by a high-ranking policeman.
Raja Petra was called in for police questioning early last month over an article titled ‘Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell’ in which he implicated Najib and Rosmah in the high-profile murder case.
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