Nothing really happened following the recent UMNO Supreme Council meeting on 26/9/2008 - except the postponement of UMNO general meeting - and there is no more transition of power from PM to Mohd Najib Razak in 2010 agreement...
The UMNO general assembly has been postponed to March next year. However, the divisional meetings will continue as scheduled. - New Straits Times, 26/9/2008 ,LATEST! UMNO general assembly postponed; transition plan is offThe reason given for the postponement is to facilitate the 'transition of power'...
The postponement to March is to facilitate the transition of power. With this announcement, the 2010 transition plan ceases to exist. - New Straits Times, 26/9/2008 ,LATEST! UMNO general assembly postponed; transition plan is off
And“Whatever I want to do, I will be discussing it with Najib (deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak). I do not feel pressured to making any decision or announcement,” he said after chairing an hour-long meeting of the special Umno Supreme Council meeting today. - New Straits Times, 26/9/2008 ,LATEST! UMNO general assembly postponed; transition plan is off
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will announce his decision whether to contest the presidency before October 9. - New Straits Times, 26/9/2008 ,LATEST! UMNO general assembly postponed; transition plan is off
and noting that all UMNO Division general meetings will be held from October 9 until November 9 - and then is when the Divisions will be making their nominations with regard as to who will be President, Deputy, Vice, etc..
The hour-long emergency supreme council meeting held this morning at Umno headquarters in the Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, also resolved to go ahead with the divisional meetings, which are scheduled from Oct 9 to Nov 9.
The meetings of the 191 party divisions, in addition to electing divisional-level leaders, will also pick the 2,500 delegates to the AGM and nominate candidates for top leadership posts. - Malaysiakini, 26/9/2008 - AGM postponed, PM may quit in March
Is Abdullah Ahmad Badawi going to be contesting for President? .....WE DO NOT KNOW...
It really puts a lot of people in UMNO - especially those who may be looking to contest for the Presidency and the Deputy Presidency in limbo..., and who will these be -- Mohd Najib, Muhyiddin Yassin, ... I believe Ku Li will not be de-railed in his quest for UMNO Presidency.
We know now that "something" -- but what will the question in the minds of a lot of people...Even those in that Supreme Council meeting seems to at a loss as to what is that something...
The fact that the Division meetings are proceeding as scheduled also indicates that all may not have gone the way that Abdullah may have wanted - postponements..Leading critic of the transition plan, vice-president Muhyiddin Yassin said although there is a postponement, he hopes that members will be patient as Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has promised to announce "something" before the party divisions begin their meetings next month. - Malaysiakini, 26/9/2008 - 'Abdullah has set a new deadline'
"That the divisional meetings will go on (from Oct 9 to Nov 9) as planned and the division leaders can proceed with the nominations and other matters as planned."
This, he added, is the correct decision as the divisions want to go on with their own elections.
"Whatever is decided by the supreme council (today) will not interrupt the divisions' plans," said Muhyddin.- Malaysiakini, 26/9/2008 - 'Abdullah has set a new deadline'
At the end of the day - nothing really may have come out from that meeting safe the postponement of the UMNO general assembly to March next year - BUT by November 9 this year, we will know who has got what nominations. We will know whether there will be contest for the Presidents and the Deputy Presidents post...
Possibly the delaying of the general assembly to March - is to give the time to resolve matters if more that one candidate qualifies to contest for the position of President and Deputy President...
So maybe it will be back to the members to decide - or rather at least nominate ...
After that they may be discussions and maybe some may withdraw - and there may be no elections for the top 2 posts...
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wanted to be PM until mid-2010 -- and would pride allow him to abdicate the Premiership so much sooner? There is no way of telling what will happen at the Division levels? Maybe, he will contest for Presidency and then see what happens when the nominations all come in?
Why did he suddenly take Defence Ministry from Mohd Najib Razak?
Why did he suddently hand over 1st Finance Minisiter to Mohd Najib Razak ---- remembering always there is that 2nd Finance Minister as well, who is more well-versed with matters of Finance?
Was it a promotion or a demotion?
Was it an indication that Mohd Najib Razak was moving up OR was it an indication that he was on the way out?
Remember also the Pahang UMNO was not there reiterating support for PM, DPM..transition plans, etc...
We will all wait and see what happens in UMNO - and this may no more be importantto Malaysians if BN is no more the government, and Pakatan Rakyat forms the new government.
Anyway possible UMNO President-in-waiting, Tengku Razaleigh had this to say about all that happened:-
Possibly the delaying of the general assembly to March - is to give the time to resolve matters if more that one candidate qualifies to contest for the position of President and Deputy President...
So maybe it will be back to the members to decide - or rather at least nominate ...
After that they may be discussions and maybe some may withdraw - and there may be no elections for the top 2 posts...
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wanted to be PM until mid-2010 -- and would pride allow him to abdicate the Premiership so much sooner? There is no way of telling what will happen at the Division levels? Maybe, he will contest for Presidency and then see what happens when the nominations all come in?
Why did he suddenly take Defence Ministry from Mohd Najib Razak?
Why did he suddently hand over 1st Finance Minisiter to Mohd Najib Razak ---- remembering always there is that 2nd Finance Minister as well, who is more well-versed with matters of Finance?
Was it a promotion or a demotion?
Was it an indication that Mohd Najib Razak was moving up OR was it an indication that he was on the way out?
Remember also the Pahang UMNO was not there reiterating support for PM, DPM..transition plans, etc...
We will all wait and see what happens in UMNO - and this may no more be importantto Malaysians if BN is no more the government, and Pakatan Rakyat forms the new government.
Anyway possible UMNO President-in-waiting, Tengku Razaleigh had this to say about all that happened:-
In a press statement this afternoon, party veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, who is vying for the president post, slammed both Abdullah and Najib over the power transfer plan.
"I think I speak for the country when I say we are embarrassed at the sight of two grown men playing this endless children's game of 'yours and mine' with the most important responsibility in the land, oblivious of the law, oblivious to the damage they are doing to the nation.
"Instead of a national economic plan or any kind of reform all the Umno leadership has given us since March 8 is a transition plan designed to save two individuals from the inconvenience of facing elections. Their personal careers appear to be more important than the future of the nation." - Malaysiakini, 26/9/2008 - 'Abdullah has set a new deadline'
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