February 12, 2012
Palace Politics: HRH Sultan Johor-Prime Minister Najib's Tete-a-Tete
by Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT Speculation has swirled over a scheduled 'four-eyes' assembly in in in between Prime Minister Najib Razak as well as a Sultan of Johor during a latter's house in a state collateral today.
Najib flies in for a 15th anniversary of a upon a water Danga Bay development which stretches for multiform hectares along city's seashore confronting a Straits of Johor.The celebrations get underway during 3.30pm, after which a Prime Minister repairs to a state house for a assembly with a Sultan which is approaching to start during 5.30pm.
Because HRH Sultan will additionally grace a anniversary celebrations he is scheduled to launch a charity foundation in connection with a project his assembly after with a Prime Minister has triggered speculation, some-more so when a subsequent item upon a PM's report is a Chingay march in a town centre which only starts during 8.30pm.
Unsurprisingly, suppositional eyebrows arched over a length as well as illusive agenda of a scheduled noise during a palace, with most theories apt to bonus a probability which a appropriateness of a charities which would good from a Danga developers' humanity or a disposition of a deities which would be upon show during a Chingay march would take up as well most conversation time in in in between a bluebloods.
In short, a tete-a-tete in in in between a Prime Minister as well as HRH Sultan is approaching to revolve on
issues of ! domestic rather than social import. Like either four-term Menteri Besar Ghani Othman would still be retained as Johor Menteri Besar after a arriving elections.
The Prime Minister wants Ghani to stay but a latter is uncertain as well as an allusion he made in a public address during a new Thaipusam celebrations in Johor fed speculation which a obligatory wants out as well as knows who should take his place.
Men aligned to Muhyiddin
Ghani said out loud which Johor Baru MP Shahrir Samad ought to be promoted in a state UMNO hierarchy upon comment of his integrity as well as ability.
This was review as indicative of Ghani's enterprise to repel in foster of Shahrir as Johor Menteri Besar, yet this would be an betterment which would be contested by during least three young aspirants aligned to Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
Muhyiddin, a former Johor MB, would be glad to see Ghani go but not replaced by Shahrir, who, yet he is not unequivocally an ally of Ghani's, is like a latter in being averse to a UMNO No 2.
In a difficult calculus of Johor UMNO alignments, any aspirant to Ghani's in front of alternative than Shahrir contingency be allied to Muhyiddin to have any possibility of obtaining a position.
HRH Sultan's dispositions upon a make a difference have been crucial to a ultimate choice; he is said to be in foster of a change of Menteri Besar. Historically, in Johor a preference of Menteri Besar is a make a difference of ethereal importance, with Putrajaya averse to commending a preference a house might frown on.
This time a question is further difficult by a appearing competition for a No 1 post in UMNO in in in between Najib as well as Muhyiddin in party polls which would have to be hold after a ubiqu! itous el ection is over.
Singapore's perspective matters
As if a destiny Menteri Besar-ship of Johor were not diligent enough, a alternative make a difference which is likely to be discussed is extremely some-more delicate, public contention of which could raise guess which a discussants have contravened laws.
The make a difference came up in recondite fashion when Singapore Prime Menteri Lee Hsien Loong mused
over a turn of golf with his Malaysian counterpart during a new visit which his supervision has detected which Menteri Besar Ghani is, after all, not antagonistic to Singapore's investment interests.
Ghani, overall, has been well well known to be glacial in his perspective to Singapore but Lee hold which which notice no longer hold up. Like many counts Malaysian, initial impressions don't indispensably congeal in to lasting stereotypes.
It is not well well known if Lee alluded to alternative adversaries who have been right away viewed as antagonistic to a investing labours of Temasek Holdings, his government's investment arm which is heavily in to Johor 's prized flagship, Iskandar Development Region.
Perhaps, Najib wants to deliberate with HRH Sultan upon a make a difference which has a potential to sour ties with a state's blue-chip investors.
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