Share Although the Jan 17 battle for the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat is a three-cornered fight, it will boil down to a straight contest between Umno and the opposition Pas. And Umno is coming across as the underdog. When nominations closed yesterday, three candidates made the cut: Umno’s Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Salleh, Pas’s Abdul [...]

Share 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 [...]

Share Today Pakatan Rakyat leaders have submitted a letter to the Prime Minister requesting him to call an emergency session of Parliament to deliberate a motion of censure against the leadership of YAB Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi no later than Tuesday 23 September 2008. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwarkah.com%2Fanwar-ibrahim-press-statement-emergency-session-parliament%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Anwar+Ibrahim+Press+Statement+On+Emergency+Session+Of+Parliament’; addthis_pub = ‘adiwira’; Rate [...]

Share Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim wants Parliament to convene by Sept 23 for him to table a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. He said that a letter signed by him, the DAP’s Lim Kit Siang and Pas president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, representing the Pakatan [...]

Share Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi‘s fate was hanging in the balance after opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim claimed last night he had secured the necessary backing to topple the prime minister by his self-imposed deadline of today. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwarkah.com%2Fanwar-ready-to-form-the-government%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Anwar+Ready+To+Form+The+Government’; addthis_pub = ‘adiwira’; Rate this: 3.2 Technorati Tags: [...]

Share Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim ended his 10-year absence from Parliament when he was sworn in at 10.05am by Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia in the Dewan Rakyat. He can now drop the “de facto” prefix from his position as opposition leader as Pandikar Amin confirmed the endorsement by Pakatan Rakyat of his leadership [...]