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Monday, July 20, 2015

There’s no conspiracy, I have openly asked Najib to go, says Dr Mahathir

Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad states his dissatisfaction, openly calling for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's resignation. – The Malaysian Insider pic, July 20, 2015.Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad states his dissatisfaction, openly calling for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's resignation. – The Malaysian Insider pic, July 20, 2015.
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today shot down talks of a conspiracy to overthrow Datuk Seri Najib Razak as prime minister, saying there is no covert attempts to unseat him.
Writing in his blog, the vocal former prime minister said he has openly campaigned for Najib to go.
"Is there a conspiracy? Is there someone or some group conspiring, i.e moving in secret in the underground to overthrow Najib?

"They welcomed the idea of him resigning or vacating his post, but active underground planning and action, there was none," he said.
Dr Mahathir said his open declaration for Najib to go was no conspiracy.
In his typical acerbic style, he said if any investigation were to be made, there is no need for detectives or special agents as the call to remove Najib was known to everyone.
"So again where is the conspiracy! It is all in the open. There is no need to conspire. There is open campaigning for his ceasing to be prime minister," he added.
Malaysia's longest serving prime minister also took a swipe at Najib's supporters who had insisted that no one has the right to demand an elected Umno president to go, sarcastically noting their "short memory" in demanding Najib's predecessor, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who was also elected, to go.
"How short is their memory? Don’t they remember Abdullah who was also elected being asked by Najib to step down. And he did. And I myself, also an elected PM, did step down in 2003," he said.
Abdullah succeeded Dr Mahathir when the latter retired in 2003 but Barisan Nasional's poor showing in the 2008 general election increased calls for him to go. Dr Mahathir started his criticism of Abdullah since 2005 and even quit Umno in protest against Abdullah's leadership in May 2008, two months after the general election.
Abdullah eventually left office and his deputy, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, took over in April 2009. Dr Mahathir then reapplied to be an Umno member in 2009, after Najib became prime minister.
Dr Mahathir pointed out all around the world, elected presidents and prime ministers will step down when either asked or forced to. He said in some countries, if anything untoward happened, ministers and prime ministers will resign as well.
"So, don’t be silly and demand that since Najib was elected, no one has a right to ask him to step down. Abdullah won more seats in 2008 than Najib in 2013. If Abdullah was prepared to step down, Najib after his poor performance in the general election should not even offer to be the PM. He should resign from being president of Umno and head of BN and let somebody else lead and become PM," he said.
The retired statesman also waded into the debate over Umno's amendment to election rules, saying that instead of allowing more members to vote, it is to limit the number of entities involved in the internal polls.
"The winners would be those getting the biggest number of divisions voting for. Effectively, this means the real electors have been reduced from 2,000 to about 190 Umno divisions. The number of members voting for a candidate is nullified. Far from making Umno elections more democratic, Najib has actually restricted the right to vote from ordinary members to just the divisions. And Najib has a strangle-hold over most of the division heads.
"So much for more democracy in Umno," he said.
- TMI

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