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Asia Sentinel: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Under Fire

Posted in politics, umno by jedyoong on April 8th, 2008

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Jed Yoong
07 April 2008

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi lashes back at his critics, who grow in number

Almost a month after Malaysia’s national election, the political battleground is getting bloodier inside the Barisan Nasional, the national governing coalition, particularly inside the United Malays National Organisation, the leading ethnic party in the coalition.

After the unexpected loss of its two-thirds parliamentary majority and of five state governments, UMNO is actually scrambling to survive, a stunning development after 50 years of nearly unchallenged dominance of Malaysian politics. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been faced with a series of brushfire problems all over the place, including the refusal by two state sultans to seat his choice for menteri besar, or chief minister.

Probably the most important thing keeping Badawi in place is the relative weakness of his challengers, which may well keep him where he is until at least party elections in August or September. The contender getting most of the ink is Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, 70, the onetime finance minister and perennial challenger to former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. The party’s other most prominent possible challenger, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Najib Tun Abdul Razak, has agreed to back Badawi, at least for now.

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  1. hutchrun said, on April 8th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    Look into my tired eyes
    See someone you don’t recognise
    Blinds that can’t be untied
    Oh this is slow suicide
    Feelings that I can’t disguise
    And never will be reconciled
    Oh something inside has died
    http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Ash/Burn-Baby-Burn.html

    How poetic! In the spirit of pantun week.

  2. hutchrun said, on April 8th, 2008 at 9:43 am

    The fun is just begining. And in this case the rolling stone will gather moss:

    Veteran and grassroots Umno leaders are seeking to hold state-by-state roadshows and gatherings to press party president Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to step down, said an Umno branch leader today.
    http://malaysiakini.com/news/81012

  3. wits0 said, on April 8th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    Even the Colossus of Rhodes never survive the quake of 226 BC. The statue snapped at the knees and fell over on to the land.

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