KUALA LUMPUR: Despite losing many leaders from Barisan Nasional component parties in the general election, the Prime Minister has given an assurance that these parties would still be represented in the Cabinet.<\/p>\n
Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi brushed aside concerns that he would have a tough time picking his new Cabinet.<\/p>\n
“Why? Why should there be a problem? It is not like they (component parties) are without any assemblymen (and) parliamentarian,” he told reporters after chairing the Umno and Barisan supreme council meetings yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Abdullah emphasised that the Barisan government is for all Malaysians and would serve the interest of minority communities which do not have representation in the Cabinet.<\/p>\n
“We are the government of Barisan Nasional. We speak for each other. We don’t say \u2018I’m there, I only speak for the Malays, I don’t speak for anyone else’.<\/p>\n
“I have said that I am the Prime Minister for all. I stand by that,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Contrary to earlier threats that if no MIC\/MCA\/Gerakan candidates means the respective communities will be left out of development and their “voices won’t be heard”, PM today assured that all parties will have representatives in the Cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,225],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-election-2008","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}