Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email I had a gut feeling that PM Badawi would not let go off his post easily. He may have given indication of doing so to rat out his political enemies. According to a blog posting by UMNO’s Ruhanie Ahmad, the PM had a meeting with his staunch supporters from 11pm yesterday until 2am today morning and the decision was to remain as president of UMNO and to stand for president post in the upcoming UMNO elections. Not sure for how long. So far, no confirmation of the posting yet nor any news from Putrajaya. Today may yet turn out to be another significant day (we are having many of those this year). By the way, the meeting was attend by representatives of Ali Rustam, who is standing for vice president’s post.
UPDATE: Malaysiakini quotes an insider who says:
Confirming that the meeting did take place, an influential Umno insider however told Malaysiakini that the meeting was nothing but a “casual meeting”.
“He has made up his mind. He will step down. I don’t think Abdullah decided this morning that he would defend his post,” said the source.
The source insisted, however, that this is “most unlikely” to happen as many BN leaders are dissatisfied with his performance.
“His execution of his reform plans is slow and many BN leaders are unhappy. Like I said, he will step down as planned and not defend his post,” stressed the source.
