PM not doing enough to promote womens agenda, says Azalina

By Yiswaree Palansamy
July 02, 2013

Datuk Seri Azalina Othman yesterday gave a budding apportion a hint of what to expect during this Parliament meeting a rougher float from a Barisan Nasional backbench.

The former apportion as well as Puteri Umno leader told Datuk Seri Najib Razak which he was not you do enough to promote a womens bulletin in Malaysia. "Often, women had to beg for what they justly deserved," said a Pengerang MP.

Why be beggars to get what women justly deserve? This is not right during all. Najib needs to be some-more sincere with regards to this agenda," she told The Malaysian Insider after a fiery speech in a House in which she lamented a series of women in leadership positions, adding which it did not reflect a PMs call for some-more women to be recognised in a open sector.

The Small as well as Medium Corporation head is a lady as well as a Bank Negara administrator is a woman, but we do not know how long they have been going to be there," said Azalina, who was a Tourism apportion in a Tun Abdullah Badawi administration as well as a high-flying Umno politician before her domestic career came up opposite a cul-de-sac, after allegations of impropriety in a auxiliary of a tourism ministry.

She additionally called Najib as well as a Women, Family as well as Community Development Ministry to come up with effective measures to stay loyal to a womens bulletin in a country. For a start, it was critical to put in place a legal clarification to ensure deserving women have been given an equal height to competition with men.

Azalina defended her seat in Johor but was between a group of senior as well as recognised Umno leaders overlooked by Najib when he chose his ministers as well as deputy ministers. Political commentators as well as pundits predicted which a PM might face some of a sharpest barbs in Parliament from his own partys elected representatives.

The reasons: melancholy over Najib's failure to deliver a two-thirds infan! cy for a bloc as well as inability to reward most of a Umno warlords who won their parliamentary seats in GE13.

Azalina has already indicated which she is prepared to competition for a top in front of in Wanita Umno in a celebration elections in October, as well as her eagerness to go upon a descent opposite Najib, a celebration president, would have warmed a hearts of most in a womens wing who felt slighted which they were not allocated most seats in a general elections.

If she does get a nominations to competition a top in front of in Wanita Umno, her opponent is expected to be Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil, a former apportion in assign of womens affairs as well as stream special confidant to a PM upon Women, Family as well as Community Development. - July 2, 2013.


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