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The former PM says Umno will rush to get Najib released from prison through a royal pardon as well as drop dozens of other corruption charges if it wins the ...

"One of the explicit or implicit objectives of Umno in the general election is to free Najib and the other protagonists of the 1MDB scandal from criminal liability," DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang said in a statement. Speaking a day later, Mahathir warned that Umno would rush to get Najib released from prison through a royal pardon as well as drop dozens of other corruption charges if it wins the election. Malaysia is set to hold a general election in the coming weeks after Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob dissolved Parliament on Monday, buckling to pressure from factions in Umno that remain loyal to Najib and others charged with corruption.

Umno feels that it is possible for the 15th general election (GE15) to be held before mid-November, its secretary general Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan said.

It will be brought to the BN supreme council for approval,” he said. Separately, he said the Umno general assembly scheduled for Nov 23 to 26 will now be held on another date to be announced. However, he said the party will leave it to the discretion of the Election Commission to set the date.

KOTA TINGGI, Oct 11 — Police said today they are tracking down the individuals and groups behind six banners attacking Umno and allegedly its vice-president ...

"The Kota Tinggi police warns that it will take action against the individual or groups involved in such acts,” said Hussin in a statement here. Hussin reminded the public that any party wanting to hang political banners for the election must submit an application to the Kota Tinggi District Council. In a statement, Kota Tinggi police chief Superintendent Hussin Zamora said the banners were hung around the Kota Tinggi constituency less than 24 hours after the Parliament was dissolved yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 — Umno cannot be entrusted with a mandate to run the country when its leaders are the ones who engineered an early general election, ...

"[MetMalaysia] deputy director-general (strategic and technical) Dr Mohd Hashim Mohd Anip had suggested that the general election should not be held this year, in view of the disaster management community, because there will be many locations throughout Malaysia that will face flooding. Lim added that the foreign financial investors are not impressed with the Barisan Nasional (BN) government and that calling the general election during possible severe floods is necessary for political stability in the country. "Umno has shown itself unfit to govern Malaysia again when its vice-president Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin admitted that Umno did not know what the King was disappointed about the latest political developments in the country.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 — Malaysia's veteran politician and opposition leader Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad predicted on Tuesday that disgraced former prime minister ...

"One of the explicit or implicit objectives of Umno in the general election is to free Najib and the other protagonists of the 1MDB scandal from criminal liability," Lim Kit Siang, a leader of the Opposition Democratic Action Party, said in a statement. "Should they be able to win and form the government, that is the first objective, not about the welfare of the people," Dr Mahathir, who had two stints as prime minister, told a news conference. Malaysia is set to hold a general election in the coming weeks after Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob dissolved Parliament on Monday, buckling to pressure from factions in the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) that remain loyal to Najib and others charged with corruption.

The seeds of this revivalist outlook were sown in the early 1980s when Mahathir Mohamad was prime minister for the first time. During this period, revivalism ...

For example, when he was the prime minister for the second time in 2018, Mahathir had to give in to conservative pressure. It also moves away from Najib’s Islam Wasatiyyah (Moderate Islam), which was emphasized after he suffered a decline in popular support in the 2013 election, and after interest in his vision for Satu Malaysia (One Malaysia) waned. The International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) was built on the goal of the Islamisation of knowledge, or at least on the promotion of Islamic perspectives on science, economics, and the humanities, among others. In the 1980s, for example, the number of women wearing headscarves grew exponentially, and the headscarf has now become a fashion industry and a standard marker of Malay identity. In fact, the Johor ruler has a number of times highlighted the need to reduce the size of JAKIM and its annual budget of over RM1 billion. Apart from laws, the growth of the religious bureaucracy is a prime indicator of the greening of Malaysia. This is in contrast to its stance in the 1990s which was more aligned to the creation of a theocracy and included the desire to replace the Federal Constitution with the Quran, to adopt the system of shura,[6] and to implement hudud laws. Arguably, this is a result of growing Islamic revivalism in the last 40 years. As mentioned above, one of the clearest indications that the political leadership represents revivalist thinking was apparent when in 2016, UMNO leaders supported the amendment of Act 355 to raise the authority of the shariah courts. To be sure, it is unlikely that Najib represented revivalist thinking, and his support for the amendment was mainly political pragmatism. This article explains why the study of Islamisation in Malaysia should move beyond UMNO and PAS. The Islamisation agenda was further entrenched during Abdullah Badawi’s administration, when there was a conservative backlash from Islamist groups in response to his vision of Islam Hadhari (Civilisational Islam).

However, he said the party will leave it to the discretion of the Election Commission to set the date. “Umno is of the view the dissolution of Parliament is the ...

It will be brought to the BN Supreme Council for approval,” he said. “Umno respects Tuanku’s command and even holds a similar position that the country cannot be allowed to continue to be in a state of political uncertainty, and that the mandate should be returned to the people for them to elect a government that can guarantee the stability and prosperity of the country,” he said. However, he said the party will leave it to the discretion of the Election Commission to set the date.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 — Umno has suggested that the 15th general election (GE15) be held by early November to avoid the flood season, said Datuk Seri Ahmad ...

“Umno believes that GE15 can be held before mid-November, which is before the arrival of the flood season or the monsoon season,” said Ahmad after the party’s supreme council meeting at World Trade Centre (WTC) here last night The Malay nationalist party’s secretary-general added, however, that Umno would leave it to the judgement of the Election Commission (EC) to decide when the poll should be conducted. KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 — Umno has suggested that the 15th general election (GE15) be held by early November to avoid the flood season, said Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan.