Status quo for MT as well? Serious?
(fz.com) – Mohsin Abdullah finds a possibility that even the 20 plus Umno Supreme Council members may keep their positions. Status quo.
IT SEEMS there is a possibility even positions for the Umno Supreme Council (Majlis Tertinggi or MT) will not be contested come party polls at the end of the year. Meaning all the current 20 plus MT members get to keep their positions. Status quo.
Well, that is what an Umno insider said, claiming he was told of such a “possibility” by a “seasoned campaigner” as far as Umno elections goes. Strange? Odd? Bizarre even? But to give the benefit of the doubt to Umno, the seasoned campaigner cannot say for sure that would be the case as it was “something he heard from within the party”.
While if that is uncertain (for now), the one thing certain is the “call” for no top two contests is getting louder by the day. And now the Umno Veterans Club apparently have not only joined in the “fray” but have gone one up with its secretary Datuk Mustapha Yaakub reportedly saying the current three vice-presidents should also not be challenged.
If that happens then it would be a first in the party’s history. Whether that is something to be proud of or otherwise is debatable, of course.
The reasons for the no contests call are the usual – “Umno need to be united, to be strengthened to face GE14, to prevent a team split,” etc. We have heard all that before. But now information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan has added a new “dimension” to the “reasons list” by saying no top two contests would be good for the stock market. Well …
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