malaysianinsider - [...] These calls have grown louder in the last 48 hours after an episode at the party’s retreat on Friday where Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Rais Yatim was criticised by some of his supreme council colleagues for attempting to package demands by him and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for Abdullah to step down before the party elections in December as a group resolution.
The party’s highest decision-making body met on Thursday and Friday to discuss the election results and seek new strategies to make Umno and Barisan Nasional relevant.
As part of the retreat programme, the supreme council members broke out into three groups. The groups were led by Rais, Datuk Ali Rustam and Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib.
After the discussions, each group was to present their resolutions before the whole council. The group’s led by Ali and Muhammad Taib did so and talked about the need to get closer to non-Malay voters, criticised the space given to the Opposition before and after the elections and other issues.
Rais stunned his audience when he said that his group wanted Abdullah to effect the transfer of power soon, before the Umno elections. His group included Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Datuk Azim Zabidi, Datuk Azalina Othman Said and others.... selanjutnya.
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