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Tun Dr. Mahathir urged for ‘leadership cleansing’ Former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad urged the rakyat to use their votes wisely and elect people who are fit the lead the Government and rakyat.
“Consider your votes for leaders who are not ‘deadwood’ and corrupt, as the party failed to ‘cleanse’ itself from these sort of people”. He said this in the media conference after the launching of “Dr. Mahathir’s selected letters to world leaders”, a book compiled and authored by former Malaysian Ambassador to the UN and NSTP Chairman Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad. He added the changes are required to be made as political parties failed to make the necessary changes within and did not manage to the “cleansing”, to stay relevant for the rakyat. This is a landmark call made by the former UMNO President and BN Chairman of 22 years and it contradicts his last year’s 10 February call in Johor Bahru, “For UMNO to not fear pre-matured leadership changes”. When asked about how UMNO will react to this, Tun Dr. Mahathir was seen today as explicitly expressing his displeasure of the morbid “Yesman” mentality of the UMNO leadership, middle level management and some members resorted to, since he left the office. In his own words, “Corrections required!”. “Orang Melayu sokong parti, tak kira calon” However, he did also say that he BN should win and continue to lead country, as it has been the past fifty years. His reservations clearly demonstrated that he was gravely unhappy on the fact that some leaders use the mandate the rakyat gave to BN, especially UMNO, as a self-fulfilling endorsement for some leaders to trump up their own beating drums and blow their horns, where else in actual fact, these leaders are worthy to be considered as “deadwoods”. READ MORE HERE
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