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- Umno to hold party elections by year-end
- Najib: Umno to set up lab to study proposal on single BN party (Updated)
- Restaurant worker suffers burns in kitchen explosion in Bukit Bintang
| Umno to hold party elections by year-end Posted: 31 May 2013 06:49 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Umno will hold its party elections before the year-end which will see almost 150,000 members selecting the top office bearers, including the president. Party president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the actual date would be decided after the party determined the mechanism and explained the voting process to members. He said the election would be conducted in accordance with amendments to the party's constitution which allowed more members to directly vote for the party leadership. "The election will be more complex and challenging because it is in line with the reforms which we decided upon three years ago," he said after chairing the party supreme council meeting here Friday. Umno was scheduled to have its election by March last year but postponed it by 18 months as the party was preparing for the general election. The last party election was in 2009. Prior to the amendment in 2009, only about 2,500 delegates had the right to vote for office bearers with strict conditions imposed on aspiring candidates before they could qualify. The party constitution was amended to make Umno more democratic as part of Najib's political transformation efforts. Apart from the 150,000 members who will be voting for supreme council aspirants, 100,000 members from each of the party's three wings Youth, Wanita and Puteri will be eligible to vote for their respective movement leaders. Asked whether he expected a challenge for his position as party president, which he won uncontested in the previous election, Najib said: "Umno is a democratic party. I do not know (if he would be challenged) but we must accept that Umno is an open party, unlike some (Opposition) parties." |
| Najib: Umno to set up lab to study proposal on single BN party (Updated) Posted: 31 May 2013 06:57 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: Umno will set up a special laboratory to study in detail the proposal to turn the Barisan Nasional into a single party, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. The Umno president said Umno also had to gather feedback from its members before making a decision on it. "Umno is a party that is close to the members hearts...so any changes must be studied in minute detail to avoid the issue of non-acceptance," he told reporters after chairing a meeting of Umno's Supreme Council at the party's headquarters here on Friday. The proposal to turn the Barisan into single party was forwarded by Gerakan acting president Datuk Chang Ko Youn. Chang said efforts in this direction was needed because the general election showed urban and young voters no longer voted along racial lines. Meanwhile, Najib also announced that Umno's disciplinary committee had received 99 complaints on internal sabotage during the general election Decisions on the complaints would be made by the committee, he said. A total of 192 Umno members who contested as independents or joined the Opposition during the general election had earlier been given the immediate sack based on party policy. Under the policy which is spelled out in Clause 20.10 of Umno's constitution, sacked members cannot rejoin Umno forever. Among those sacked were Wanita Umno vice-president Datuk Kamilia Ibrahim who stood as an independent candidate for the Kuala Kangsar parliamentary seat; Datuk Seri Mohd Shariff Omar (contested the Tasek Gelugor parliamentary and Sungai Dua state seat as and independent ) and Sepang Umno Youth chief Datuk Suhaimi Mohd Ghazali (contested the Sepang parliamentary seat as an independent). Meanwhile, Barisan secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said Barisan would be filing more than 50 election petitions on the general election results in the High Courts of the states involved soon. He said the coalition's lawyers were studying the cases including in 37 constituencies where the nomination of Opposition candidates appeared to be doubtful in that election regulations were not followed. - Bernama |
| Restaurant worker suffers burns in kitchen explosion in Bukit Bintang Posted: 31 May 2013 06:09 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: A worker suffered about 80 percent burns on his body in a cooking gas cylinder explosion at the kitchen of a restaurant in Bukit Bintang on Friday. The worker, identified as Fauzi, in his 30s, was rushed to the Kuala Lumpur Hospital following the incident at about 12.30pm at the restaurant in Jalan Bulan, said Kuala Lumpur Fire and Rescue Department director Khirudin Drahman. "A preliminary investigation revealed that the explosion occurred in the kitchen on the upper floor of the double-storey premises," he said in a text message to Bernama. A restaurant worker identified as Faizan, 26, told Bernama he was attending to a customer when he realised there was a strong smell of gas. "Suddenly, the electricity supply was disrupted, resulting in the customers leaving the premises. "Fauzi went to find out what the problem was in the kitchen," he said. Faizan said shortly afterwards there was a loud explosion and the glass windows in the kitchen were shattered, and Fauzi was injured. Khirudin said the department sent 24 fire fighters in two trucks from the Pudu and Hang Tuah fire and rescue stations. The fire fighters brought the fire under control in eight minutes and extinguished it in 30 minutes, he said. The damage had yet to be assessed, he added. - Bernama |
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