The two top positions in Umno must be contested in order to strengthen the party's democratic process, said Umno supreme council and Foreign Minister Dr Rais Yatim. "Umno is in dire need of a strong democratic process and I belong to that group where the (positions) of the president and the deputy president should be challenged," he said.
Rais told this to Bernama after chairing a meeting of 13 heads of Malaysian missions in the Americas at the Malaysian Embassy in Washington.
"Any office should be subject to contests - public office should not be sacrosanct - Umno should go through a process of reversion," back to the way it was," he said.
Contest for the party's top two positions became off-limits following the 1987 battle for presidency between the then incumbent Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.
Tengku Razaleigh subsequently formed Semangat 46 and took several key Umno members with him, including Rais. However, the duo have since returned to Umno.
Meanwhile, Rais, who said that he intended to contest for the post of vice-president at the party's general assembly in December, added that this "process of reversion" within Umno was healthy for the party.
If decisions were made by leaders only, some repercussions were bound to happen but "if grassroots were given the opportunity, then democratic values could be enhanced," said the Jelebu MP
He was, however, confident that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his deputy Najib Abdul Razak, could weather the "rough spot" in the country's political storm.
tunku : everyone wants contest for all the posts, only pak lah and his group don't want it and trying their best not to let any contest for the top 2 posts.they think they are going in the right direction but they will certainly know it later but then its too late for them.pak lah should be brave enough to be challenge , after all he says he has the backing from the majority of divisions.he should call for mt meeting and get rid of the quota system asap.
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Masaalah akan datang kpd pemimpin yg hanya memikirkan keuntungan dpd jawatan nya melebihi drp tanggungjawab yang di tuntut.
Saya berharap BPR akan bekerja lebih masa untuk memantau pemilihan UMNO supaya merekaX yang menggunakan politik wang dapat dibenteras supaya hanya pemimpinx yg di sokong majoriti mendapat kemenangan.
Saya tidak yakin kpd J/Kuasa disiplin kerana mereka akan berpihak kpd yg sedang berkuasa.
Jikalau Dolah benarX mahu menghapuskan rasuah, tiada ketika yg lebih baik drp pemilihan UMNO.
Harapan ramai agar merekaX yg berhasrat menjadi pemimpin bukan hanya berkelayakan tetapi yg lebih penting tahu perbezaan antara perjuangan dan tempolok sendiri.
MudahXan.
Salam,
I watched TV3's Buletin Utama last night and catch a glimpse of NGO's meeting about the power transition for PM post. And this one fella really talk loud and proud with hand gesture waving in the air about his opinion on PM power transition and get more or less 30 seconds of air time.
I respect his strong stand on his opinion but I really doubt his 'ikhlas'ness of his opinion. I'm sorry but Sir, other people opinion still matter. There's no right or wrong in discussion. You stand for your believe Sir, do respect other people opinion or you are just communist. Ha Ha. There! I've said it. Been saving this thought since I'd watch that clips. and yet, I didn't score any TV's prime air time.
Rais mahu 2 jawatan tertinggi dalam UMNO untuk dipertandingkan kerana dia juga mahu bertanding untuk jawatan naib presiden.jika dia tidak bertanding,dia pasti akan senyap sahaja.
bersuara untuk mendapat tempat - itulah Rais dan sebilangan lagi pemimpin UMNO lakukan.ini perkara biasa kerana ini adalah politik.kawan menjadi lawan dalam politik.
of course he wanna the top 2 post to be contested because he also wanna contest for the vice-president post!.so,no wonder he issued such statement.
i bet he gonna keep quiet if he's now the incumbent vice-president of UMNO.the things he said gonna be a whole lot different.
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