Foto lama "Dalam bertiga, Abdullah Badawi juga yang lain"

AFP photo

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Ini adalah foto lama. Ada tiga orang penting negara Malaysia; Abdullah Ahamad Badawi, Sultan Mizan dan Najib Razak. Sultan Mizan (Agong) dan Najib Razak hidup dalam suasana, terangsang lalu mereka tersenyum. Manakala Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, hidup dalam dunia sendiri, penuh resah dan terkeliru dan keadaan sekeliling gagal memberi stimulus untuk apa-apa reaksi.

Ada waktunya, sekuat mana pun kita cuba mengawal diri, tabir wajah terselak lantas memapar hati yang rungsing dan nafsu membuak biarpun sekejap. Foto yang tulin jarang menipu.

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Raja dan Pemimpin

IPOH, 2 Mei (Bernama) -- Sultan Perak Sultan Azlan Shah menitahkan Menteri Besar Perak Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin supaya menarik balik serta merta arahan pertukaran Pengarah Jabatan Agama Islam Perak (JAIP) Datuk Jamry Sury yang dibuat Selasa lepas.

Arahan supaya menarik balik arahan pertukaran itu terkandung dalam kenyataan akhbar tiga muka surat yang dikeluarkan atas titah Raja Muda Perak Raja Dr Nazrin Shah selepas Mohammad Nizar dititah untuk menghadap baginda di Istana Raja Muda Perak pada pukul 11 pagi ini untuk menyembah maklum kepada baginda berhubung arahan pertukaran Jamry.... (boleh baca selebihnya di sini, serta komen2)


BERITADARIGUNUNG:
Suatu masa dulu rakyat dan pemimpin adalah penyelamat tanah air, kini ketika kemelut kepimpinan memuncak, raja pula mencemar duli menyelamat tanah air dan rakyat jelata

Perasmian Sidang Parlimen 2008

(minaq jinggo)

Parlimen Malaysia: Sultan Mizan, Abdullah Badawi, Mukhriz, Mustapa,Khaled dan tudung terbang.

The king and Abdullah

PENANG: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was greeted by a crowd of about 300 people, including Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his wife Betty Chew, when he returned to Penang for the first time since the general election. star online

KUALA TERENGGANU: The rakyat and members of political parties, including from the opposition, were out in full force yesterday to welcome the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin at the Sultan Mahmud Airport.

The estimated 30,000-strong crowd created a massive traffic jam lasting nearly three hours from the Sultan Mahmud bridge to the airport, a distance of about 5km. nst online

BERITADARIGUNUNG: 300 is 1% of 30,000. i thought a figure of 10% is customary. Some understand 10% in an off tangent meaning. Right Ibrahim Saad? Right Idris Jusoh?

Opposition to bid for Deputy Speaker’s post

By LEE YUK PENG and ZULKIFLI ABD RAHMAN, the star

PETALING JAYA: With 82 seats under their control, the Opposition parties want to set a precedent in the Dewan Rakyat by proposing one of their MPs for the post of Deputy Speaker.

Outgoing Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang said he had written to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on March 25 asking for a consensus on the matter. The Speaker and the two deputies were usually elected by MPs.

He said in return, the Opposition could agree to a consensus on the Speaker and the other deputy.....

There are now 140 Barisan MPs to 82 Opposition MPs in the Dewan Rakyat.

PKR won 31 seats, DAP 28 and PAS 23. Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin will open the joint session of the Dewan Rakyat and Dewan Negara on April 29.

BERITADARIGUNUNG: The recent episode in perlis and terengganu is pointing to this fact. When leadership is failing, the king will chip in.

Malaysia's ruling party debates problems over internal elections, spat with king

associated press.
27mac2008

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia's ruling party considered Thursday whether to postpone internal balloting due this year — a move that could spare the prime minister from a leadership challenge following surprise electoral losses.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi chaired a meeting of the United Malays National Organization's policy-making council to determine whether party elections due in August should be delayed until next year because of current political turbulence. The party is scheduled to hold its annual congress in August, when Abdullah is supposed to seek re-election as UMNO president and other top posts will also be contested. But party laws allow the elections to be postponed until June 2009.

UMNO is the main party in the National Front governing coalition, which held onto power in March 8 general elections but lost its two-thirds majority in Parliament. It also lost control of five state legislatures — the coalition's worst results in 51 years in power.

Abdullah has dismissed calls by some UMNO members for his resignation, saying he still commands enough support. His critics include Razaleigh Hamzah, an ex-finance minister who hopes to run for UMNO's presidency. The party president traditionally becomes the prime minister.

Abdullah's other dilemma is a high-profile dispute with Malaysia's constitutional monarch, Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin.

Last week, the king overruled Abdullah's nominee for chief minister of the oil-rich northeastern state of Terengganu and appointed another UMNO lawmaker instead. The king is also the titular head of Terengganu.

UMNO has said the king's move was unconstitutional because state lawmakers supported Abdullah's choice, Idris Jusoh, whom the king dislikes intensely. Party leaders have threatened to expel the king's appointee, Ahmad Said, from UMNO and oust him from the legislature with a no-confidence vote. But speculation has mounted that UMNO will back down after Abdullah held talks with the king on Wednesday.

The UMNO meeting is also expected to discuss Cabinet vacancies after three deputy ministers appointed by Abdullah last week rejected their posts. Two said they had been in their positions too long and had been hoping to become full ministers. Deputy Environment Minister Ghapur Salleh told the national Bernama news agency Thursday that he too was refusing his post to avoid being "tied down with the duties." He said he would not leave the ruling coalition amid fears that the opposition is luring lawmakers to defect.

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