Can we be adults, please?

Najib so engrossed in their selfish behaviour that he is  more worried about a possible threat to hisr future rather than threat to the ethos of the game. also tied up by the UMNO  constitution which gives great power and almost infalliable stature to the president.The divisions align to Najib allowed  him to take high moral ground. Perhaps, knowing in their heart of hearts that they themselves were not on clean footing! ‘Perhaps that is what you get when you have to scrape the bottom of the barrel for choice of ministers.Waytha’s appointment gives voiceless ‘chance to be heard’ don’t forget. There are no marginalised Indians. There are only lazy, selfish Indians. A budget and handout programmes will not alleviate this. A change of mindset is necessary among the Indians. You won’t be able to effect his change of mindset because you don’t even recognise this fact, as yet. You will realsie it soon enough. Mr wathya, The problem is not that there were no platforms for the voiceless. The problem is that Najib chooses to be deaf to their voices. If you can’t understand the fundamentals, how can you take appropriate actions to address the problem? By implying that there were no other platforms for the voiceless to air their grouses before and now, you are just admitting that the BN-Umno has never cared and all their component parties especially MIC, IPF, and PPP have never cared and have never voice out for the poor and marginalised. It is unwise to hit at your new found partners way below the belt. If you think you can do better, show us by your deeds and not just by your words.

That’s democracy. Unless a consensus emerges, with a great drive to change, nothing works even if it’s for the better. Call it a curse, or whatever. But we all are part of this bitter reality.That’s perhaps the human mind at work: selfish, cunning, power-hungry, waiting to find escape routes and excuses. Those traits have helped us a great deal ruling over all other animals on the planet. Those traits also have given us personal glories.

Sometimes alliance parties Kadir suggested that it was possible the Malays had seen how the prime minister appeared too willing to curry favour with the non-Malays, and felt worried that if the MCA, MIC or Gerakan won big, their power would be usurped.find it convenient to simulate conflict, but this is public posturing to satisfy populist opinion before an election. are the new templates of posture-politics.There are certain things which deserve to be regulated, but banning them outright leads to unintended effects. The repressed will return in ugly and distorted forms, posing problems for governance and leading to social, economic and cultural stagnation.Laws and government must, in general, neither infantilise us nor place us in the category of saints. They need to make some allowance for our being human. Else, they will be not just ineffective but even counterproductive.

Power is the glue of politics  Malay politics, reduced to minimalist, notional ideology, devoid of individual or party accountability, is peculiarly suited tocronies. If there is no accountability, Power is the glue of politics. That is why a government is expected to be in array and opposition generally in disarray. Ideology is a fickle custodian of unity in an age of convenience.Ideology is a fickle custodian of unity in an age of convenience. Its absence has eliminated the difference between  President Najib  and Deputy President, Muhyiddin

Najib’s cronies wanted to thank him for keeping . They knew they were voting for the NDA. Since then, however, there has been some slippage in minority support for Nitish. Nitish’s political gasp at the reappearance of the photo was an attempt to buy a few brownie points at easy rates, a familiar tactic of electoral politics. Similarly, the BJP’s gruff huff and puff was intended to energize its own core vote. Neither party will win in Bihar if they split their support, and their leaders have tasted the comforts of office.

Umno’s grassroots should get to decide the fate of Datuk Seri Najib Razak as party president when internal polls are held at the year’s end, former New Straits Times (NST) group editor-in-chief Datuk A. Kadir Jasin said today.However, when these traits are used in public life and in areas of social responsibility, they become ills. They don’t build fair, transparent and powerful society

The political commentator appeared to disagree with suggestions from state-level leaderships that the party’s top two posts not be contested, saying their views must take into account that it was likely Umno’s grassroots leaders and members who helped save Barisan Nasional (BN) from losing Election 2013.

Without their support, he said in a blog posting today, Umno may not have scored the 88 federal seats it won during the divisive polls ― a significant nine seats more than the 79 it won in Election 2008.

“It would only be reasonable to give them the right to decide if they want Najib’s presidency challenged because Umno would not have won those precious 88 seats if its members or supporters had not resolved to vote for BN on May 5.

Umno elections, to be conducted for the first time under a new format, begin at the protracted branch level next month (an estimated 18,000 branches), followed by voting in the crucial 193 divisions from September which would ultimately decide on the standings of the party’s main office-bearers, including the top five.

This will culminate in the main event, the general assembly, the date of which has yet to be fixed. But possibly in late October or November.

Statistically, Umno on the other hand recorded an improvement in the number of seats won, both at state and federal levels, hence the asssertion by some that Umno should remain steadfast and go for status quo.

This appears to be a hard bargain, firstly because while it has become quite common for the post of president or, to a lesser extent, deputy president, to be declared a no-contest zone by consensus, the fight for the three VP seats have over the years always been tough and trying, through a vote.

In the last round for instance, there were eight contenders but the ones who finally got elected were Hishammuddin Hussein, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Shafie Apdal.

It is hard not to see the same propensity for a keen contest again this time.

Wide race

“They should also be given the space and opportunity to decide among themselves if they want Najib, whose achievements were lower, to be retained as president (and subsequently as prime minister) when they showed Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi the exit after a greater victory in 2008,” Kadir wrote.

More so since the new election format has done away with the restrictive condition requiring a quota of nominations as a qualifying mark — 57 for president (meaning, a person could only contest if he got at least 57 nominations), 38 for deputy president, 19 for VP, 10 for supreme council and so on.

The revamp has opened up the arena wide and that anyone can now contest for Umno president provided he has been nominated and that he has been either a supreme council member or a divisional committee member for at least one term.

Veteran member Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, for instance, can contest without having to wait, like the last time, for divisions to openly nominate him.

This, plus the enlarged voter base of 146,500 (instead of 2,500 delegates previously), makes for an interesting Umno elections this time. Added to that of course are the post-GE13 comments from significant figures which have a bearing on the Umno polls.

Compared to the aftermath of the 2008 GE, there is a lot less bashing this time against the powers behind Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN). But underneath the muffled sounds came a few significant ones from figures such as Daim Zainuddin who is said to share much sentiment with influential party elder Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

In a press interview recently, Daim made no bones about some of the things the top BN leadership should not have done in the run-up to GE13, like his admonition of the prime minister’s advisors. And this is seen by some as a signal for changes when the Umno elections come.

Some people say Daim was trying to be clever after the event. But significantly, as with comments from a few other veterans in their blog entries, many others agree with him.

The continuous attacks on strategies attributed to certain advisors engaged by the BN leadership provide strong ammo for a keen contest ahead.

The Umno elections in its new format will be just the right platform for action, they maintain.

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