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GE-13 may be delayed after a slew of scandals

January 1, 2012

GE-13 may be delayed after a slew of scandals

Editor, The Malaysian Insider

Datuk Seri Najib Razak is expected to reshuffle his Cabinet as early as this month as well as check job elections to later this year as scandals engulfing during least dual ministers have been threatening a feel-good cause of Budget 2012 where a Prime Minister dispensed direct income assist to a little 5.3 million households, UMNO insiders say.

The Malaysian Insider understands which Prime Minister's Office (PMO) comparison officials have a list of potential new ministers as well as deputy ministers which will be seen as Najib's people to execute his New Economic Model (NEM) as well as domestic transformation programme as he heads in to a ubiquitous election.

"Najib needs more of his own group in a Cabinet. And he needs to reinstate those seen as sinister before he calls an election," pronounced an UMNO lawmaker tighten to a celebration president, referring to scandals surrounding Wanita Umno arch Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, eremite affairs apportion Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom as well as deputy apportion Datuk Awang Adek Hussin who admitted to reception a little monetary contributions.

There has been conjecture in a Chinese media as well as additionally among domestic analysts which Najib could dissolve parliament after a Chinese New Year celebrations upon Jan 23 for a Mar election, 4 years after Election 2008.

It is accepted which a Election Commission (EC) has req! uisition ed propagandize halls as well as village centres for a possible choosing in March. However, others say Najib is watchful for electoral reforms as well as a initial public offering by state land developer FELDA prior to job an election.

Another UMNO source pronounced a celebration is additionally not ready for polls notwithstanding Najib telling celebration members to be upon a "war footing" for an early election. "We have been not just ready. Some warlords do not wish to give up their chance of standing in a next polls," he told The Malaysian Insider.

The source pointed out only former Terengganu Mentri Besar as well as UMNO chief, Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh, has plainly pronounced he will not contest in future elections.

"Most warlords consider they can win if they have been picked. And if they have been not picked, they will exclude to work for those declared just similar to what happened in 2008," he added.

UMNO won only 79 of a 112 federal seats it contested in 2008 when a statute Barisan Nasional (BN) lost a customary two-thirds parliamentary infancy as well as 4 more state governments. Former celebration boss as well as budding apportion Tun Abdullah Badawi stepped down a year after a losses as well as handed a leadership to Najib.

Party officials as well as analysts say a popular Najib must regain a two-thirds parliamentary infancy or during least compare Abdullah's feat margin. "It isn't easy as well as a current scandals do not help Najib who is essentially a discreet man," one celebration central told The Malaysian Insider.

Several UMNO warlords have plainly asked Shahrizat to resign from her domestic posts over investigations in to her family's company, a National Feedlot Corporation (NFC), which a Auditor-General pronounced was in a mone! tary "me ss" after removing RM250 million in public fund.

The Women, Family as well as Community Development apportion has pronounced a association has nothing to do with her as well as Najib as well as his Deputy, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, have denied which she has sent a abdication letter. But a new examine by a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has sparked conjecture which Shahrizat will have to go rather than have a liaison smear UMNO.

UMNO is already upon a backfoot after former Selangor Menteri Besar Dr Khir Toyo was convicted of graft as well as sentenced to a year's prison last month in a land squeeze deal. He is appealing a case.

Jamil, a Minister in a Prime Minister's Department for Islamic Affairs, has denied he as well as dual eremite officials had misappropriated donation income to compensate their authorised fees in a box brought by opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

An audit inform pronounced RM63,650 from a council's zakat account to settle their authorised costs incurred when Anwar declared a contingent as respondents in his qazaf application. It additionally reliable which a sum was repaid to a account after a legislature obtained a RM70,000 grant in Jun last year as part of a ubiquitous resources grant from a government.