Major Changes in Umno

Umno to hold special assembly to amend constitution .

KUALA LUMPUR: The Umno Supreme Council agreed on Friday to hold a special general assembly at the end of this year to amend party constitution pertaining to the party's election process to make it more transparent, open and democratic.
Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said a committee had been set up to deal with suggestions on what was needed to be amended and other changes in the party.
The committee, he said, would then bring all the suggestions to the attention of the Supreme Council before tabling them at the special general assembly.
"The Supreme Council has also taken into consideration the changes announced by the government and I have also briefed them on the liberalisation policy and the dissolution of the Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Ministry.
"The Supreme Council understands why such decisions were made. This does not mean that there is a change in our commitment but rather, to do away with overlapping of functions among ministries so that they can be more focused.
"We will continue with the policy of the ministry," he told a news conference after chairing the Umno Supreme Council meeting Friday, Bernama reported.
Najib also commented on the appointments to the supreme council, which is listed below.
He said the party’s vice-presidents were qualified to be appointed as state liaison chiefs.
He said if they were qualified to be elected as vice-presidents they would surely be qualified to become Umno state liaison chiefs.
This is the first time the three party vice-presidents were also made to lead Umno at the state level.
They are Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein (Terengganu), Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (Penang) and Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal who is now the Kedah head.
On whether this was because there were no better candidates for the posts, he said:
“It was based on my considerations. As I feel there is a need to appoint our vice-presidents, so I appointed them.”
Six Umno state liaison chiefs were dropped. They are Datuk Ahmad Said (Terengganu), Datuk Seri Zulhasnan Rafique (Federal Territory), Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib (Selangor), Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid (Kedah), Tan Sri Annuar Musa (Kelantan) and Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for Penang.
Najib has taken on Selangor while letting go of the Perak state liaison chief post which has been handed over to Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohd Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir.

THE NEW LINE-UP:

Secretary-General: Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor
Treasurer-General: Datuk Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah
Information Chief: Ahmad Maslan

State Liaison Chiefs:
Selangor: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak replaces Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib.
Federal Territory: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin replaces Datuk Seri Zulhasnan Rafique.
Terengganu: Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein; Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said is deputy chief.
Perak: Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir
Kedah: Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal
Kelantan: Datuk Mustapa Mohamad
Penang: Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Negri Sembilan: Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan
Malacca: Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam
Johor: Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman
Pahang: Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob
Perlis: Datuk Seri Md Isa Sabu
Sabah: Datuk Seri Musa Aman

Appointed Supreme Council members:
- Datuk Kamilia Ibrahim (Wanita)
- Datuk Razali Ibrahim (Youth)
- Dr Wan Norashikin Wan Nordin (Puteri)
- Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim
- Datuk Seri Nazri Abd Aziz
- Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom
- Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin
- Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam
- Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz
- Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman
- Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim

tunku : it is a very good move and much awaited for umno to hold a special general assembly at the end of this year to amend party constitution pertaining to the party's election process to make it more transparent, open and democratic. we hope the party leadership will study thoroughly other matters that need amendments too.
it was a good decision too by najib to make major changes in the states leadership ( 7 + 1 states). hope those state will come out stronger.while there were good changes there were also some bad choice made by najib but we can't expect it will be 100% to our expectation.80% good enough. i just can't understand why nazri aziz appointed when he had made it clear that he will not hold the mt seat.maybe the close connection to najib .
i don't know much about ahmad maslan but hopes that he'll be the effective ketua penerangan , not like the previous one. we want the ketua penerangan to be super active and smart.
i am happy that mahadzir khaled and annuar musa is out.thank god.