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Sex, bribes and blackmail – Najib’s 

appeal in jeopardy after Leissner exposed 

more dirty deals in 1MDB scandal...

Najib Razak, the disgraced former prime minister of Malaysia, is appealing his corruption convictions after being sentenced to 12 years’ jail and fined RM210 million. The High Court delivered the guilty verdict in July 2020 for abuse of power, criminal breach of trust (CBT), and money laundering – all involving RM42 million stolen from SRC International Sdn Bhd (a subsidiary of 1MDB).

 

His appeal failed in December 2021 after the Court of Appeal upheld the High Court’s decision. Not only all the 3 judges had thrown out Najib’s appeal, they also used harsh language, calling the ex-PM’s corruption a “national embarrassment”. Najib now has only one final shot at the Federal Court, the highest court and the final appellate court in the country.

 

But Mr Najib has since lost much of his earlier confidence. Shafee Abdullah, his leading attorney whom he proudly introduced to journalists as “hotshot lawyer” in 2018, has been dropped. The world’s biggest crook wants to appoint Queen’s Counsel (QC) from the United Kingdom to appeal in his final appeal. His appeal, however, could be jeopardised following the trial of Tim Leissner.

Leissner, the former chief of Goldman Sachs’ Southeast Asia operation, has exposed more dirty backroom and bedroom deals – sex, bribes and blackmail – during his testimony in a U.S. federal court in the ongoing 1MDB trial of Roger Ng, Goldman’s Malaysian head of investment banking. Mr Ng had received RM35 million in kickbacks to take part in the money laundering scheme.

 

While 52-year-old Leissner pleaded guilty in August 2018 to conspiring to violate U.S. anti-bribery laws and money laundering, Ng has pleaded not guilty to helping launder millions of dollars looted from the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB. Ng’s lawyer said he is a “fall guy” for one of the biggest financial scandals in Wall Street history, as Leissner testifies as a government witness against Ng.

 

Even though the trial in a Brooklyn federal court was supposed to focus on Goldman’s role in the international scandal, Leissner’s testimony has done more damage than Malaysian former premier Najib had wanted at this critical time. U.S. prosecutors said Ng helped two co-conspirators – his former boss Leissner and Jho Low, Najib’s partner-in-crime, in embezzling money from 1MDB.

Hoping to get a lighter punishment for being the star prosecution witness against his “best friend” 49-year-old Ng, Mr Leissner testified how Jho Low was rejected by Goldman as a client due to Low’s bad publicity – wild parties and bottomless (but suspicious) source of money to fund his lavish lifestyles. Still, Leissner and Ng continued to deal with Low in their private capacity.

Leissner, a German, and Ng, a Malaysian citizen, saw the opportunity to pocket some of the profits as both helped Jho Low to siphon off billions of dollars from 1MDB (1 Malaysia Development Berhad). Even when the 1MDB scandal was first exploded, only one name – Tim Leissner – was put forward as the bad apple. He merely resigned in Feb 2016 without being charged.

It would take the downfall of Najib Razak in the May 2018 General Election to reveal the relations between Najib and Tim Leissner, Roger Ng and Jho Low. After admitting to enriching himself to the tune of more than US$200 million in proceeds from 1MDB bonds that flowed into accounts controlled by him and a relative in Hong Kong, Leissner paid only US$43.7 million to the U.S. as part of a deal to turn witness.

But even before the US$6.5 billion in bonds that Goldman helped 1MDB to raise between 2009 and 2014, which allowed the U.S. bank to earn a whopping US$600 million in fees, the bribery in the form of back-scratching had already begun. During one Thanksgiving trip to New York in 2009, Leissner arranged for Najib to meet with Goldman’s then-CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, ahead of major bond deals for 1MDB.

In return for the lucrative business deals, Leissner revealed that Goldman was to get jobs at the bank for Najib’s three children, something that the ex-PM liked to call “You help me, I help you”. Unfortunately, the U.S. investment bank declined to hire Najib’s daughter (Nooryana Najwa Najib), forcing Leissner to pulling some strings to get her a position with TPG Capital, an American private equity firm in Hong Kong, instead.

 

Najib Razak has today rubbished Leissner’s testimony, saying in his Facebook – “This didn’t happen and none of my children was ever offered a job at Goldman Sachs and had never worked at that US bank”. As usual, the serial liar was telling only half-truth. What happened was all his children, including his favourite daughter, were not qualified to work at Goldman Sachs.

To prevent a red flag from being raised at Goldman, Leissner and Ng decided to use code names like “friend” (to refer to Jho Low) and “PMO” (Prime Minister’s Office) to hide Jho Low’s identity after the bank officially declined to accept Low as a private wealth client, largely due to his source of wealth. Jho Low was “essential” because he secretly fed Goldman bankers with inside information.

But it wasn’t just all work and no play. Leissner admitted to having several affairs while working for Goldman, including with Anis Jamaludin, the daughter of Jamaluddin Jarjis, Najib’s best friend. A former Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Jamaluddin was appointed as Malaysian Ambassador to the U.S. in July 2009 after he sexually harassed a female worker of a restaurant at a five-star hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

According to a LinkedIn page, Ms Anis worked (yes, she’s more qualified than Najib’s daughter) for Goldman as an investment banking analyst in Singapore from July to November 2010. So, it was not coincidence that Goldman was granted a licence to operate in Malaysia in December 2009 and began pitching for business, including the successful deals in arranging three bond sales for 1MDB.

As it turned out, besides Anis Jamaluddin, Leissner’s other Malaysian lover was Rohana Rozhan, who was then CEO of Malaysian media giant Astro Malaysia Holdings, a company owned by Ananda Krishnan, one of the richest men in the country. The Goldman banker was in a romantic relationship with Rozana from 2003 to 2013, until he decided to marry U.S. TV personality Kimora Lee Simmons in 2013.

However, Rozana was upset when Leissner wanted to end the relationship and had blackmailed to expose him unless he buy her a US$10 million house in London. Leissner said – “If I didn’t buy her a house, she would tell the authorities about my involvement in the 1MDB scandal. She was threatening to expose me. At the time, 2013, I was very fearful of that,”

Ng’s attorney Marc Agnifilo, however, has attacked Leissner’s reputation, accusing the banker as a “double bigamist” – married two women at the same time – twice. The defence attorney also accused Leissner of forging documents including divorce papers and of having sexual relations with Jasmine Loo Ai Swan, formerly general counsel for 1MDB who received a US$5 million from the 1MDB fund.

Anis Jamaluddin and Rohana Rozhan were just two of three women whom Tim Leissner managed to fish in Malaysia. The third woman was Elia Geneid, the niece of Abdul Taib Mahmud, the most corrupt former Sarawak Chief Minister (1981-2014) who was promoted as the Governor by the equally corrupt ruling government of Barisan Nasional.

Elia is the daughter of Taib’s powerful sister, Raziah Mahmud Geneid. In his testimony, Leissner revealed the niece of Taib was accompanying him (even though Leissner was legally married to someone else), along with Ng and Jho Low during a trip to Beijing in 2009, which unsurprisingly coincided with Najib’s official visit to China.

While the former Goldman’s top gun admitted to the U.S. court that he was driven by greed and  ambition, he also testified that Jho Low had advised him of people in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi who needed to be bribed. The name on the top list was Najib Razak and the United Arab Emirates Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour, who was implicated in an audio recording back in 2020.

In the audio recording, which was leaked to former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Chief Latheefa Koya, Najib asked the UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed to help fabricate a loan agreement to show that Najib’s stepson, Riza Aziz, had received financing from the UAE state-funded International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) and not from money siphoned from 1MDB.

Najib was caught seeking help from the UAE crown prince in the audio recording – “The premise is relatively small, if there can be an agreement with Sheikh Mansour to have a loan agreement signed that will show that it is a legitimate financing package, it’s not money laundering“. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan was then chairman of IPIC.

The scandal involved global investigation across three continents, where money was spent on high-end property, luxury goods and lavish holidays and parties involving Najib, his family and partner Jho Low. The U.S.-DOJ investigation results says that over US$4.5 billion was misappropriated from the 1MDB fund, with some of the money used to buy the private jet, a super yacht, Picasso paintings, jewellery and real estate.

Because Tim Leissner has a deal with the U.S. Justice Department to turn witness against fellow colleague Roger Ng, his testimonies carries weight. It would be extremely hard for even a Queen’s Counsel from UK to defend or deflect Najib’s embezzlement in the Federal Court. The only way out is to become the powerful prime minister again in order to escape prison. - FT

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She blackmailed her lover for USD10 million dollar 

house in London and the money comes from the rakyat... 

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US$1 billion sama dengan RM4.18 Billion (ikut exchange rate USD/MYR latest). Jadi RM4.18 billion telah terbang melayang keluar dari negara kita dalam sekelip mata saja pada satu malam saja. Saya nak hantar duit raya RM300 kepada bekas Indonesian maid kami di Jawa pun kena isi borang bank, perlu sebut tujuan hantar duit dan pelbagai. Kalau nak hantar duit kut money changer, money changer pula takut.

Ini pula depa boleh hantar keluar duit curi sebanyak RM4.18 Billion ke luar negara dalam satu malam sahaja. Tiada sebarang halangan rupa-nya. Nasib mereka baik. SPRM, Polis kurang faham baca bahasa Inggeris. - Syed Akbar Ali 

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Najib: My kids never 

worked for Goldman Sachs..

Former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak today clarified that his children had never worked for Goldman Sachs.

Najib said media reports had given the impression that he was induced by Goldman Sachs with purported offers for his children to work at the disgraced US investment bank.

These media reports were based on the testimony of former Goldman Sachs partner Tim Leissner while testifying as a prosecution witness against his former subordinate Roger Ng, a Malaysian.

Najib said that his children never received the purported offers. "That's (supposed to be) job offers, OK? Not offers for projects or bribe money," wrote Najib on Facebook.

Leissner told the court that he was informed by Low Taek Jho, also known as Jho Low, via email, that three of Najib's children were seeking employment at Goldman Sachs. - mk

Leissner also testified that fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, made a list of people in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi who needed to be bribed to ensure that the 1MDB plan was approved. Among the names in his testimony were former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and United Arab Emirates Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour.

In an earlier testimony, Leissner also dropped a bombshell revelation on Najib, who allegedly wanted to secure jobs for his three children with Goldman.

Leissner, 52, testified that his ex-boss Lloyd Blankfein’s meeting with Najib in 2009 came with an agenda and it took place before the bank’s mega bond deals for 1MDB.

He added that he was told by Ng that Najib would be in New York to visit his children for the Thanksgiving holiday. He alleged Low said it would be good for Blankfein and Najib to meet.

Ng, 49, is facing accusations of pocketing millions of dollars in kickbacks in the 1MDB deal, with allegations of money laundering and violating anti-bribery laws. Low was charged in the US in 2018 however, he remains a fugitive. – The Vibes

Meanwhile, Former Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s rebuttal that his children never worked for the investment bank Goldman Sachs missed the point regarding such allegations, said Semambu assemblyperson Lee Chean Chung. He said the mere act of Najib taking advantage of his position to lobby for those jobs constituted an abuse of power.

“Even if Najib’s children did not ultimately land jobs in Goldman Sachs, it has been established that (former Goldman Sachs South Asia chair Tim Leissner) had introduced Najib's youngest daughter (Nooryana Najwa Najib) to TPG Capital in Hong Kong.

“Let's be clear that 1MDB is a failed public entity which wasted billions of rakyat’s dollars.

“Using 1MDB's big bond deals, the fund-raising process of which is itself questionable, to seek favours at a 2009 meeting with former Goldman chief Lloyd Blankfein for his own children is legally and morally corrupt,” the PKR treasurer-general said in a statement today. 

Leissner testified at a New York court about a meeting between him, Blankfein, and Najib in 2009. In return for the lucrative 1MDB business, jobs would be secured for Najib’s three children at the US multinational investment bank.

However, the bank’s government relations department would not support this due to the sensitivity involved in hiring government-connected children, and Leissner said he ultimately tapped his other connections to secure a job for Nooryana at TPG. - - mk

Leissner had affairs with three 

M'sians, two are politically connected...

Disgraced former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner has revealed that not only did he score a big deal in Malaysia, he found love too - thrice.Testifying before a US court in the trial against Roger Ng, Leissner revealed this when the prosecutor asked him about his trip to Beijing in 2009.

Leissner, Ng and Low Taek Jho had travelled to Beijing, coinciding with Najib Abdul Razak's first official trip abroad as prime minister on June 4 and June 5. Najib was received by then Chinese president Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao.

According to court transcripts, the prosecution showed Leissner email printouts to which the witness explained were related to setting up meetings in Beijing with Low, also known as Jho Low, and also government officials.

When Leissner was asked who he was travelling with, he revealed it was the niece of a former Sarawak chief minister. At the time, Leissner was legally married to someone else.

Prosecutor Drew Rolle: So were you having an affair with Ms [name withheld]?

Leissner: Yes.

Rolle: And who was she, Ms [name withheld]?

Leissner: She was Malaysian and she was the niece of (a former) chief minister of Sarawak.

Rolle: She was related to a government official?

Leissner: She was the niece of the chief minister, yes.

Rolle: At that point had Goldman Sachs done business in Sarawak?

Leissner: Yes, we had.

Tim Leissner (far left) and Kimora Lee Simmons (second from left) with Najib Abdul Razak 

at the launch of Khazanah Americas Incorporated (KAI) in San Francisco, US on Sept 22, 2013.

Leissner revealed that when he was involved with the woman, his employer Goldman Sachs was doing business with Sarawak. He did not disclose this to Goldman Sachs' control functions despite the company having policies on relationships with relatives of clients or government officials.

Asked if the relationship with the woman benefited him in terms of work for Goldman Sachs, Leissner replied: "Not directly." He explained that the intermediary for the deal was known as "Mr Seow", who collected a fee for intermediating between Goldman Sachs and Sarawak.

While still legally married, Leissner said he was once engaged to the woman but eventually did not marry her.

Two other affairs

The prosecutor then asked Leissner if there were other client-related persons with whom he had affairs, to which the witness replied there were. He revealed that he had a “longstanding” relationship with a woman who was a chief executive of a media company since 2003.

He also said he had an affair with the daughter of a Malaysian ambassador to the US. Malaysiakini is not naming any of the women out of respect for their privacy because they are not involved in the 1MDB affair.

When the prosecutor asked Leissner if Goldman Sachs had benefited from his relationship with the former chief executive of the media company, the witness again replied: "Not directly." 

He said while Goldman Sachs did work on the media company's initial public offerings, the couple's relationship was frowned upon by the media company's owner. Again, Leissner did not report the relationship to Goldman Sachs’ control functions.

US$10m house in London

Leissner conceded he made a lot of money from the 1MDB affair and he spent approximately US$10 million (RM40 million) to buy the former chief executive a house in London.

When asked why, Leissner explained that he bought the house because the woman was very upset that he was ending their relationship after 10 years to marry model Kimora Lee Simmons in 2013.

"She put it to me that we had spent 10 years in a relationship and that if I didn't buy her a house, she would, for example, tell the authorities about my involvement in the 1MDB scheme.

"Not that I disclosed all the details to her about that but I did mention to her that I had received money out of that scheme... I was very fearful of that," said Leissner.

Leissner and Simmons had a child in 2015. It is uncertain if they are still together.

Leissner is testifying against his former subordinate Ng, who is charged with money laundering and violating anti-bribery laws in relation to the 1MDB affair. - mk

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Johor polls set to be a 

general election bellwether...

The Johor state elections next month, coming at a time of inflation, growing unemployment, struggling businesses and a more than year-long second Covid-19 wave, are not what the people want or need. But the elections were forced by Umno, which claimed that a new mandate was necessary because the ruling Barisan Nasional plus Perikatan Nasional government was shaky with only a one-seat majority in the state assembly.

Obviously there is more to it than that. What is clear, and confirmed by party insiders, is that the elections are aimed at further “destroying” Bersatu which had nearly annihilated Umno by luring its MPs with positions and power after the 2018 general election. Umno set off on this vendetta in Melaka last November, deciding on a head-on collision with its federal government partner resulting in PN being left in a debilitated state.

And now Umno is all set to roll over not only Bersatu in Johor but also the opposition parties which are feuding openly. Pakatan Harapan (PH) is busy warding off the punches thrown at it by a couple of newbies in the fray. Umno, with its formidable election machinery obviously has the advantage. Another upside is that the opposition seems to be fragmented.

If this happens, Najib Razak and his so-called “court cluster” members will see their positions in the party strengthened to prepare for the next general election (GE15), whether one likes it or not. Minus the independents in past elections, Johor will see the most crowded election in terms of the number of registered political parties that are contesting. The results could well see some of them starting their decline while others may see their fortunes rising.

With 2.5 million voters eligible to vote including the 750,000-odd Undi18 fresh and young newcomers, Johor could well be a bellwether of the national mood. The Sabah polls in 2020 were carried out in a cautious mood while the Melaka polls saw tough SOPs with the same opposition parties groping in the dark. So they were not the right electorate to gauge the mood of voters.

As for the Sarawak elections, as expected it was a landslide victory for the pro-Perikatan Nasional Gabungan Parti Sarawak which is also a close friend of Umno. But that state is far from national politics, and it cannot be used to gauge voter sentiments in West Malaysia.

With the government relaxing the SOPs in Sarawak to a certain degree compared to Melaka, the voter turnout which was low there is expected to improve in Johor although it is not expected to hit the high of 80% achieved in GE14.

The Undi18 voters are a mystery, really. No one is sure how these young untainted minds who are chiefly dependent on social media for political fodder are going to vote, if ever they decide to cast their ballots. Of course many of them are likely to be influenced by their parents and relatives and that could have a bearing.

Even if 50% of them decide to come out and vote, we will have about 375,000 voters which will make a difference in many seats, especially the marginal ones. Then comes Muda, a party which hopes to make an impact among the youths, especially the Undi18.

Will they opt for the party led by Muda’s Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman or parties which can field notable politicians with vast experience such as Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Anwar Ibrahim, Najib Razak, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Lim Kit Siang, Muhyiddin Yassin and Shafie Apdal among others? Another first in this election is the entry of Parti Bangsa Malaysia.

For the first time since GE14, PKR has decided to use its own logo instead of the PH flag after its disastrous outing in Melaka where the party lost in all its contests. On the other hand, DAP and Amanah will use the PH logo. If this switch succeeds in Johor, it may see a new trend but if it fails, the coalition has to go back to the drawing board.

In all this hustle and bustle, PAS appears to be unusually silent as it licks its wounds caused by Umno’s open “divorce” from its Muafakat Nasional (MN) partner. It had asked the Islamic party to choose between it or Bersatu. It chose to stick with Bersatu and Muhyiddin Yassin who gave them more than their fair share in the Cabinet and other government positions. Caught in a bind, the likely outcome for PAS is that it will becoming insignificant in states other than Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah.

The Johor elections may see a considerable weakening of PAS’ political influence, especially with the Umno leaders openly saying Malaysia is for all races and religions. Unlike the previous three state elections held since 2018, Johor is going to be a different ball game altogether. Be prepared for a new national political landscape come polling day on March 12. - K.Parkaran

Nur Sajat (above) says she is very comfortable and proud to be a woman.Cosmetics entrepreneur Nur Sajat has legally changed her gender status to female in Australia.

In a post on Instagram live, Nur Sajat, 35, said she felt as if she was “reborn” and was happy because the process of changing her gender status in Australia was easy. “I am very happy that everything is over. I feel comfortable and proud to be a woman. I appreciate that this country understands my situation.

“I can finally be myself and I hope people will accept me for who I am,” she said according to a report by Kosmo. Asked by her followers whether she would change her name, she said she would continue to go by ‘Nur Sajat’. - fmt

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PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has claimed that Muda, a youth-led party, was a creation of DAP aimed at baiting Malay youths. He likened Muda to Amanah, a PAS splinter party that Hadi claimed was also set up by DAP.

"DAP created Amanah. I know that they recruited PAS people to establish Amanah. "Now it's the same with Muda. It is to bait Malay youths. Don't take the bait," Hadi (above) told some 2,000 supporters at the launch of Perikatan Nasional (PN) in Kota Tinggi, Johor last night.

In his speech, Hadi spoke about BN's corruption and its defeat by Harapan in the 2018 general election. However, Hadi said PAS was unwilling to cooperate with the Harapan component parties as it could not accept, DAP, PKR and Amanah. He repeated his assertion that DAP was "anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-monarchy".

He also called PKR a "liar" and then proceeded to apologise to Bersatu supreme council Azmin Ali, who was seen standing behind him at the event. PN, Hadi said, was an acceptable coalition to PAS as Bersatu was no longer with Harapan while Gerakan is "not extreme". He added that Harapan could not deliver on its promises after almost two years in power. In contrast, PN did not have to make any promises. "PN was created without any promises. When we were formed, there was no manifesto. We just did what we wanted to do," he said.

The PAS president also defended the PN government for disasters that had befallen the country, including the Covid-19 pandemic and floods. "We were blamed for the pandemic. We were blamed for the major floods. The floods were an act of God. The Covid-19 pandemic is also an act of God. They are to test our wisdom.

PN is part of a coalition government with BN in the federal government and several states. However, BN, after ousting Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin as the prime minister, is now gradually pushing PN out of their partnership.

BN forced snap polls in Johor and plans to win enough seats in order to form the state government on its own. Johoreans will go to the polls on March 12. The nomination day is fixed for Feb 26. - mk

PH-MUDA cooperation is the right formula when Hadi attacks DAP like a mad dog...

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang knew his Islamist party will be wiped out again, even before the polling begins in the Johor state election. It only won 1 seat during the 2018 General Election. Yet, Hadi has been talking as if his extremist party had won 51 out of 56 seats since the state assembly was dissolved last month, paving the way for an early state election.

 

As one of governing partners of the federal government, PAS still thinks highly of itself. The relations between the country’s two major Malay-Muslim parties – United Malays National Organization (UMNO) and Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) – started to crack once again at the negotiating table over seat allocation. UMNO could only spare 4 seats for PAS, leading to a war of words.

As the kingmaker, at least that was what the arrogant and disillusioned Hadi thought, PAS was furious that it was treated like a beggar. After all, prior to the dissolution of Johor, UMNO and PAS were part of the Barisan Nasional-led government, along with Bersatu. It was an insult to PAS because the Islamist party wanted to contest every seat that Barisan Nasional failed to win in 2018.

The war of words began when PAS fired its first salvo, accusing UMNO of being power hungry. Mr Hadi told all and sundry how PAS healed “lame duck” UMNO, who was crippled after the 2018 national election when the party lost power for the first time in 61 years since Malaysia’s independence in 1957. UMNO was projected as an ungrateful party that wanted to leave PAS.

In retaliation, UMNO accused PAS as the real lame duck, reminding Hadi how he betrayed the national cooperation between UMNO and PAS (glorified as “Muafakat Nasional” under the pretext of Malay-unity) when the Islamist party president chose to support UMNO rival Bersatu. Hadi and his minions were bribed with ministership by Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin.

UMNO president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who once kissed and hugged Abdul Hadi Awang as if he was the last living thing on the planet, had told the PAS leader to become a “zoologist”. UMNO deputy president Mohamad Hasan told Hadi that his party did not need anyone’s help to recover. In fact, PAS was reminded that both the parties had sunk together in 2018, becoming the Opposition.

MUDA Political Party

Besides self ego, there’s a reason why extremist Hadi refused to accept the 4 seats offered by UMNO. Instead of accepting the guaranteed winnable 4 seats, PAS believed it could win more seats together with Bersatu based on the assumption that Muhyiddin still possessed strong influence based on the former PM’s popularity, not to mention that Johor was also Muhyiddin’s stronghold.

More importantly, PAS had thought that the decision by newly-registered MUDA (Malaysian United Democratic Party) party to join the Johor state election would further split the opposition parties, which was already in disarray. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim had decided that his party PKR will use its own logo, whereas allies DAP and Amanah insisted on using Pakatan Harapan banner.

MUDA, an acronym for “young” in Malay”, was initially left out by Pakatan Harapan in seat negotiations. The young party claims it has more than 12,000 members in the state. While it is not expected to win any seat on its own, MUDA can definitely do a lot of damage as a spoiler, what more with other opposition parties like Sabah-based Warisan and former PM Mahathir’s Pejuang in the race.

Therefore, with the Opposition heavily divided, Hadi and Muhyiddin believed that they could make UMNO runs for its money, or even win unexpectedly if UMNO haters and fence sitters could be convinced or instigated to vote for Perikatan Nasional. They also hoped UMNO’s arrogance and over-confidence would backfire as young voters above 18 are allowed to vote for the first time.

However, despite minor clashes between MUDA and PKR, the opposition appears to be more united than anticipated by PAS. Democratic Action Party (DAP) and Amanah (National Trust Party) have generously offered “6 winnable seats” to MUDA, eliminating not only overlapping contests, but also enables the opposition to move together as strategic partners.

With MUDA now aligned with Pakatan Harapan, or at least with DAP-Amanah, Hadi and Muhyiddin’s game plan to isolate young voters, especially the Malay youngsters, is crushed. Sure, it’s everyone’s guess if young-centric MUDA could attract young voters. But the fact that the party was rejected twice by the Registrar of Societies during Muhyiddin regime with no apparent reasons says a lot about its threat.

And it’s precisely because MUDA has yet to be proven that it was a wise move for DAP-Amanah to keep the wild card. Many analysts had wrongly predicted that MUDA will not ally with old parties like PKR, DAP or Amanah, let alone corrupt party like UMNO or a party made of boatloads of traitors like Bersatu. They had predicted that MUDA would join forces with Warisan instead.

 

Pakatan Harapan Flag

Even if MUDA managed to attract all the young voters, which it can’t, the young party that is still wet between ears is still too weak to win seats without support from the “old voters”. Because the majority of youngsters are anti-establishment, they are a threat to UMNO-led Barisan Nasional. The right formula is for MUDA to join forces with liberal opposition parties like DAP and Amanah.

That explains why Hadi Awang has gone bonkers – whining, screaming and bitching till foaming at the mouth like a mad dog with wild accusations that MUDA, like Amanah, was created by DAP to bait Malay youngsters. In his evil attempt to stir up racial and religion sentiments among the Malay community, Hadi repeated his extreme rhetoric that DAP was “anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Monarchy”.

Hadi and Muhyiddin were hoping that given the choice between UMNO and Bersatu, young Malays would vote Perikatan Nasional under Muhyiddin leadership. In the eventuality that the youngsters vote for MUDA, it would still be acceptable because the new party will not get enough votes to win anyway. It would be disaster if MUDA votes go to Pakatan Harapan.

While Johor is expected to see a low turnout, it should experience higher turnout than Melaka state election due to the 18-21 age group of voters. Pakatan Harapan, which suffered heavy losses in Melaka as Chinese voters had either swung to Barisan Nasional or stayed at home as a sign of boycott, desperately needed the new bloc of young voters to make up the deficit.

If indeed MUDA is irrelevant, exactly why Hadi Awang felt so threatened that he had to attack DAP? The last time PAS launched such fierce attacks against DAP was after Pakatan Harapan stunningly won the general election and formed the federal government for the first time. After Pakatan government collapsed, PAS had basically stopped such attack, enjoying Mercedes and young wives.

Johor state election will see the number of voters increase by 28% with the addition of 749,731 voters aged 18 following the automatic registration of voters under the Undi18 move. It’s not rocket science that this new vote bank could change the political landscape. Even UMNO, while insisting it was not afraid of MUDA, has warned about underestimating the party formed by former sports minister Syed Saddiq. - FT

 

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Johor election, is UMNO seeking stability 

or a ‘get-out-of-jail’ card for Najib?

All-too familiar political rumblings are once again being heard in Malaysia, as the country prepares for its fourth statewide election in the Covid-19 era.The upcoming vote in the country’s second most populous state of Johor comes after Chief Minister Hasni Mohammad over the weekend received royal assent to dissolve the assembly. Despite having the mandate to govern until June 2023, Hasni called for an early election citing the instability of having just a single-seat majority.

A member of Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s United Malays National Organisation (Umno), Hasni said it was crucial for him to have strong support to proceed with development plans. Polling day has yet to be set, but under the law, the election must be held within two months.

Most political analysts, who are largely unconvinced by Hasni’s rationale for triggering the polls, say the move – coming amid rising Covid-19 cases of the Omicron variant in Malaysia – is heavily connected to national-level political manoeuvrings as the country’s long-simmering political battle once again threatens to hit boiling point.

Out of the three other statewide polls held since September 2021, two contests – in Sabah and Melaka – were linked to the fierce battle for national power among Malaysia’s political camps, while the Sarawak election last December was held following the expiry of the state assembly’s mandate.

This time, the polls will have serious implications for the hugely influential Umno, where alliances are split between a camp backing Ismail Sabri and another that is behind the scandal-haunted ex-leader Najib Razak. The result of the vote could also impact whether, and when, the prime minister calls a general election.

Why call elections now?

Speculation has been rife that Hasni would trigger snap polls after the death of an assemblyman, Osman Sapian, in late December.The demise of Osman, a former chief minister, meant the coalition Hasni led had a majority of just one seat in the 56-member state assembly. Hasni’s headaches were compounded by the rivalry within his coalition. His Umno has 14 seats, while the Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) – the party of Ismail Sabri’s predecessor Muhyiddin Yassin – has 11 seats.

The fierce rivalry between the two parties, who champion Malay nationalism and admit only Malay-Muslims as full members, led to Muhyiddin’s ousting last August – just 17 months after he gained power following a complex political coup.

Both parties now support Prime Minister Ismail Sabri’s federal government, but their key members have openly sniped at each other and indicated they will not cooperate at the next polls. Muhyiddin last November warned the Johor administration could collapse “with the push of a button”.

“After Muhyiddin’s threat, and seeing their majority reduced to just one seat, it was time for Umno to dissolve the assembly,” said political observer Awang Azman Awang Pawi of the University of Malaya.

Others, such as Tunku Mohar Tunku Mokhtar of the International Islamic University of Malaysia, said he did not buy Hasni’s pretext for the polls, arguing instead that Umno was seeking to consolidate its resurgent clout following its crushing victory in November’s Melaka election.

That result capped a series of favourable outcomes for Umno, which had floundered following its shock defeat in 2018’s election that ended its uninterrupted 61-year streak as Malaysia’s main ruling party.

Francis Hutchinson, a long-time Malaysia watcher at Singapore’s Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, was also of the view that Umno’s buoyancy following the Melaka vote was the key reason for the upcoming snap poll. “Johor is seen as even friendlier terrain, as Umno was born in Johor Bahru and has an unshakeable grip on the eastern half of the state,” the researcher noted in a commentary on Monday.

The Najib factor?

A common line of thinking among Umno’s opponents in recent days is that the Johor poll squarely has to do with the power struggle within the party. Liew Chin Tong, a political strategist for the opposition Democratic Action Party, wrote in a commentary that Umno was split between a so-called “troika” comprising Najib, the current president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and his deputy Mohamad Hasan on one side, and another made up of ministers in Ismail Sabri’s cabinet.

The latter group, Liew suggested, was in favour of prolonging the premier’s now five-month tenure in office while Najib’s camp is seeking an early general election. Going to the polls now rather later – after an internal party election due in November is held – would mean Ahmad Zahid will be able to pick candidates favouring his faction, which in turn would boost their clout in the aftermath of the national poll.

“To put it in the simplest terms, the Johor snap poll is just the first salvo for a snap general election, which will be Najib and Zahid’s ‘get-out-of-jail’ pass,” Liew wrote.

Najib is currently facing multiple criminal cases linking him to the infamous 1MDB financial scandal, and has already been sentenced to 12 years in jail in one of these trials.

He is out on bail pending an appeal to the country’s highest court in that case.

Ahmad Zahid – Najib’s key lieutenant during his 2009-2018 stint as premier – is also facing dozens of criminal charges over unrelated corruption, money laundering and criminal breach of trust cases.

Wither Anwar Ibrahim and the opposition?

As it stands, the Johor vote will see a three-way fight featuring Umno and the Barisan Nasional bloc it leads, Muhyiddin’s PPBM and the opposition Pakatan Harapan alliance led by reformist icon Anwar Ibrahim. Pakatan Harapan has in recent months been engaged in deep introspection following its pummelling in the Melaka state election.

Within the bloc, some have questioned whether its leader Anwar, 74, should step aside to allow younger blood to take the reins. Its current fortunes stand in contrast with Umno: victors in the 2018 poll, Pakatan Harapan was shafted out of power following Muhyiddin’s 2020 coup and has fared poorly in all three state elections held in the last two years.

The bloc’s top leaders have said they viewed the snap poll as a “calculated move” to pressure Ismail Sabri to call a general election. Doing so, however, would be in breach of an agreement between Pakatan Harapan and the prime minister signed last year. That accord was struck to restore medium-term stability to the country’s politics in the midst of the pandemic, and stipulated that parliament would not be dissolved before August.

Despite being against the Johor election, Pakatan Harapan will field candidates in the polls and has said it hopes all non-government parties including the Pejuang party of elder statesman Mahathir Mohamad and the youth-centric Muda would contest under a unified umbrella.

The coalition had 27 seats in the just-dissolved assembly, and is expected to retain the urban constituencies in and around the state capital Johor Bahru, where it has fared well in recent elections. Australia-based Malaysian politics watcher James Chin said all eyes will be on the “youth vote”. The Johor election is the first contest following the operationalisation of a recent constitutional amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.

Iseas’ Hutchinson suggested the younger voters could prove to be a wild card. “The recent lowering of the voting age means the participation of a large cohort of young first-time voters, many of whom have had their education and career prospects severely affected by the pandemic,” he wrote in the fulcrum.sg portal. “Which way they will swing is difficult to determine.” - Hadi Azmi,scmp

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Premier Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg 

Orang keliru dengan gelaran baru... 

Dalam sebuah negara persekutuan macam Malaysia, Australia dan Kanada, ketua kerajaan pusat digelar Perdana Menteri. Dalam bahasa Inggeris, Prime Minister. Ketua kerajaan negeri dalam bahasa Inggeris disebut Chief Minister macam di India. India ni sebuah republik persekutuan. Di Australia dan Kanada, ketua kerajaan negeri digelaran Premier. 

Di Malaysia, ketua kerajaan negeri-negeri Melayu dipanggil Menteri Besar. Tidak ada gelaran dalam bahasa Inggeris. Ketua kerajaan Negeri-negeri Selat (Pulau Pinang dan Melaka), Sarawak dan Sabah digelar Ketua Menteri atau dalam bahasa Inggeris, Chief Minister. Malah ada juga orang yang kata, gelaran Perdana Menteri itu pun tidak berapa tepat. Mereka kata, Menteri Perdana lebih tepat. 

Jangan pula kita keliru antara ketua negara dengan ketua kerajaan. Ketua Negara Malaysia adalah Yang di-Pertuan Agong. Ketua Kerajaan adalah Perdana Menteri.Sekarang Sarawak nak "stylised"kan Ketua Menteri/Chief Minister menjadi Premier. Tapi Premier itu bahasa Inggeris. Adakah dalam bahasa Melayu pun mereka hendak guna Premier juga? 

Di Malaysia ni banyak orang suka nama orang Putih dan Arab. Tak faham kepala ekor tak apa asalkan nampak bergaya. Lepas ini janganlah hairan kalau negeri-negeri lain pun nak tiru Sarawak dengan menukar gelaran Menteri Besar dan Ketua Menteri mereka. Inilah jadinya apabila Kerajaan Pusat lemah dan Perdana Menteri tidak dihormati. Negeri-negeri pun naik tocang.Sarawak dan Sabah sekarang tengah beria-ia hendak berlainan daripada Semenanjung atas alasan autonomi. Kita sedar dan, sikit sebanyak, kita faham aspirasi mereka. 

Tapi setakat tukar gelaran Chief Minister jadi Premier kerana nak bunyi seakan-akan Prime Minister pun tak guna juga kalau benda-benda lain yang bersangkut-paut dengan kehidupan rakyat jelata tidak bertambah baik.Malangnya media massa berbahasa Inggeris pun sering keliru mengenai penggunaan Prime Minister dan Premier ini. Mereka sering mencampuradukkannya. Penggunaan yang tepat adalah "Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison". "Premier of Victoria, Daniel Andrews". - A Kadir Jasin

Renaming CM as Premier...

An academician has questioned if the Sarawak government had referred to the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) prior to announcing the proposal of changing the term ‘Chief Minister’ (Ketua Menteri in Malay) to ‘Premier’ (‘Perdana’ or ‘Prima’ in Malay).

An academician has questioned if the Sarawak government had referred to the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) prior to announcing the proposal of changing the term ‘Chief Minister’ (Ketua Menteri in Malay) to ‘Premier’ (‘Perdana’ or ‘Prima’ in Malay).

According to Awang Azman, the literal Malay translation of Chief Minister is ‘Ketua Menteri’, which is equivalent to the post ‘Menteri Besar’ in any Malaysian state that has a sultan.

“These are special names, but with no special translation.

“Even in English, a Chief Minister can be likened to a Menteri Besar.

“However, any head of government under the Commonwealth and the Westminster systems is known either as a ‘Prime Minister’, a ‘Premier’, a ‘Chief Minister’ or a ‘First Minister’.

“Unless being distinguished very clearly early on, these terms can be confusing when it comes to translating them into the national language,” he added.

Meanwhile, political analyst Prof James Chin regarded the proposed name change as not only symbolic, but also indicative of Sarawak taking the lead in terms of championing the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) cause.

He was confident that once the constitutional amendment bill got passed in DUN Sarawak, Sabah would follow suit.

“It’s quite a big deal for both Sabah and Sarawak,” said Chin, an expert in Asian Studies at the University of Tasmania in Australia.

He also maintained that the term ‘Premier’ referring to heads of states in Australia and Canada was ‘commonplace as it is, in the Commonwealth jurisdiction’.

“Sarawakians need to know that it’s just a name change, which is hugely symbolic nevertheless.

“So if they want additional power for the ‘Premier’, then they (DUN) would have to change other parts of the Sarawak Constitution,” he said.

When met on the first day of the DUN Sarawak Special Sitting yesterday, Minister of Tourism, Creative Industry and Performing Arts Dato Sri Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah viewed the proposed name change as ‘putting Sarawak in the right perspective in its journey to reclaim its rights as equal partner in the formation of Malaysia’.

Abdul Karim, also the state’s Minister of Youth, Sport and Entrepreneur Development, is tabling the Constitution of the State of Sarawak (Amendment) Bill 2022 today to effect the name change.

The Bill also seeks to rename Sarawak’s ‘Assistant Minister’ title to ‘Deputy Minister’. - Borneo Post

200,000 Johoreans residing in Singapore,including you...

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Hishammuddin memegang jawatan sebagai pengerusi Mesyuarat Menteri Kuartet Covid-19, sebelum ini telah mengumumkan pelbagai SOP Covid-19 kebangsaan - termasuk ziarah umrah dan MyTravelPass - serta mengatakan bahawa pilihan raya negeri (PRN) Johor harus dijalankan dengan selamat. 

"Oleh sebab itu, adalah sesuatu yang tidak boleh dimaafkan apabila beliau sendiri didapati melanggar SOP Covid di majlis persiapan PRN Johor anjuran MIC Johor baru-baru ini.

Now let us move on...

The conversations, if you can call it that, on PRN Johore, is deafening. Too many voices saying too many things about nothing in particular. What you hear out there is about promises not kept, betrayal, pengkhianats, realignments of factional divides along race, religion, gender, and of course, across political divides. And Frogs and riff raffs. For surely in the political conundrum that is Johore, there must be some easy pickings for Frogs and political riff raffs kan?

Pick what they want. Do what frogs do, lompat, but we are already seeing in Johor what is to come in the days ahead as PRU15 looms. Simply said, the Opposition, which, for lack of a better phrase, is Pakatan Harapan, is waking up from its indulgent slumber. There is a sense of vigor, though some would insist it is not vigor but desperation, that is stirring within PH. Is DSAI getting his act together? Or is it a case of too little too late? If Malacca is a done deal, will Johor follow suit? 

That will depend on whom you are asking that question of. I will say that BN will prevail and confirm Umno's boast that Johor, dulu, kini dan selama lama nya, is Umno's to hold and to have. To others, win or lose in Johor, what matters are the lessons to be learned in Johor.

That will depend on what lessons have been learned by Pakatan Harapan from the Malacca debacle. One lesson PH did not learn from Malacca dates back to what lessons they should have learned from PRU14. The rakyat in PRU14, voted for PH. It is disingenuous of PKR to think itself able to secure more votes under its own flag than under PH's flag.

MUDA got some kerusi from PH. Why? If it is MUDA's intention to strengthen the Opposition/PH...then would it not have been better for MUDA to unselfishly throw its weight behind PH and campaign to help PH win seats in Johor? I am just asking these questions - I am not going into the pros and cons of what is right and what is wrong. Work that out for yourself.

Why only MUDA? Are there not others that DSAI can co-op into PH to make PH stronger and more relevant to the rakyat and more formidable an opponent to BN? Of course, there are, but personalities get in the way of these "get together's" kan? DSAI, as leader of the opposition, you have got to sort it out.

Any way, the die is cast. After Johor I am sure there will be other PRNs. Kedah or Perak, perhaps? Get your act together PH. If you want to quarrel amongst yourself, do so in the confines of a safe, secured, and soundproof room. We do not want to hear of those quarrels. If you all still agree to disagree, then consensus prevails and everyone gets behind what has been agreed upon by consensus. And always remember what comes first. The rakyat. And a dose of humility and grace would help. - Hussein Hamid

Big Umno win coming up as 

long as opposition is split...

Umno will enjoy a repeat of its Malacca success in Johor as long as the opposition continues to be split.

Veteran journalist Abdul Kadir Jasin said that if Umno wins the Johor state assembly election on March 12, it will not be because Umno is strong like it used to be, but because the opposition is divided.

"There are many parties that oppose Umno, and the people who want change are many, but now they are even more divided than during the Malacca state election.

"Pakatan Harapan is divided into two because PKR wants to use its own symbol, while DAP and Amanah will use the Harapan logo.

"Voters will be confused and less confident with this selfish attitude. So, for these reasons, Umno seems to have an advantage," Kadir said in a post on his Facebook.

In addition to that, newcomer Muda, led by Muar MP Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, has managed to negotiate to run in six seats originally allocated to DAP and Amanah but the party does not appear to have enjoyed similar luck with PKR.

PKR agreed to give Muda three constituencies, but the two parties could not agree on the specific seats.

Kadir added that on the other side, in the Perikatan Nasional coalition, Bersatu and PAS do not have the strength in Johor, and Bersatu should ready itself for more punishment after having been "deceived by Umno and Azmin Ali's faction".

"Even Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin has signalled their defeat when announcing his decision not to defend the Gambir state assembly seat.

"Bersatu is not strong, and PAS is weak. Bersatu won seats in Johor in the last general election on the strength of Harapan," he said.

The Election Commission has set nomination day for Feb 26 and polling for March 12. - A.Kadir Jasin

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