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GEORGE TOWN: The power transfer from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak may just be “a change of soup rather than medication.”
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the country’s situation would remain the same if the transition failed to herald policy changes. “The decision to speed up the power transition by the Umno supreme council special meeting on Friday also indicates a power struggle within the party,” he said during a press conference after attending a signing ceremony between Penang Development Corporation and Farrari Mutiara Medical Group in Bayan Baru. Lim, who is also DAP secretary-general, was commenting on Umno’s postponement of its annual general assembly, and supreme council elections to March next year, to facilitate an early power transition. On DAP vice-chairman Tunku Aziz Tunku Ibrahim’s comment that it was unethical for MPs to crossover to join other parties to bring about a change of Government, Lim said the opinion was in line with the party’s views on the matter. “If an individual MP wants to leave his party, then he should return his constituents and get a new mandate. “Tunku Abdul Aziz’s view is not inconsistent with the party’s,” he said. Lim also condemned the molotov cocktail attack at Seputeh MP Teresa Kok’s parents’ home in Kuala Lumpur early yesterday morning. He hoped the police would take stern action. He also called on Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar to be as quick to act against those committing violent crimes as he was in arresting non-violent Malaysian citizens. PAS vice-president Mohamad Sabu also condemned the attack. He said harmony within the country must be upheld. - The Star
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