ALOR SETAR, 9 Sept (Bernama) -- Menteri Besar Kedah, Datuk Mukhriz Tun Dr Mahathir akan menimbang pandangan rakan-rakannya sebelum membuat keputusan bertanding jawatan naib presiden pada perhimpunan parti itu Disember ini.
"Saya didatangi ramai kawan-kawan yang memberi bermacam pandangan (mengenai pertandingan naib presiden) dan menilainya daripada pelbagai sudut.
"Buat masa ini sukar hendak membuat keputusan," katanya apabila diminta mengulas kajian sebuah blog bahawa beliau mendahului calon lain dengan 85 peratus.
Mukhriz ditemui selepas menyampaikan sumbangan peribadi dan bantuan zakat Jabatan Zakat Negeri Kedah kepada 35 pelajar negeri ini yang akan berlepas ke Jordan Rabu ini untuk melanjutkan pengajian di tiga universiti di negara itu.
Katanya beliau sedar mengenai kajian blog berkenaan namun tidak akan terpengaruh dengan laporannya.
Mukhriz berkata beliau masih memberi keutamaan untuk membangunkan Kedah daripada memikirkan untuk bertanding jawatan naib presiden dengan tanggungjawab berat menanti beliau -- BERNAMA
My comments : On Monday evening I had a long tea with someone who will be contesting for a seat in the Majlis Tertinggi UMNO. I will be blogging about that as well. Banyak teori yang menarik.
The person I met is not happy with the rise of Khairy Jamaluddin in UMNO. Here are some situations.
Firstly, with reference to the above report by Bernama if Mukhriz contests the VP position he will definitely win. This is a situation which is presenting itself to Mukhriz especially now - in 2013. There is no guarantee that this situation will repeat itself say three years from now.
If Mukhriz wins a VP slot he will then have tenure as a Vice President of UMNO. This will also give Mukhriz more stature in Kedah where although he is the Menteri Besar but in the party hierarchy Mukhriz has less stature than some of the Ketua Bahagian in Kedah.
If Mukhriz does not venture for the Vice Presidency and KJ wins the Ketua Pemuda uncontested, then by the next General Elections in 2018 (or UMNO elections earlier) Khairy will have up to 10 years track record as Ketua Pemuda UMNO. He would also have been a Minister for five years plus a Member of Parliament for almost 10 years. KJ will then certainly go for the VP or even Deputy President's post.
At that time it will be quite impossible for Mukhriz to start climbing the ladder in UMNO. KJ would have planted his people all over UMNO - which he has already started doing now. So Mukhriz had better keep all this in mind as well.
The other option is for Mukhriz to run against KJ for the Ketua Pemuda post now. It is also likely that if Mukhriz takes on KJ for the Ketua Pemuda post this year he will win.
This means KJ will remain a Minister and MP but with no senior position in the party. It will then be easier for Mukhriz to progress further in UMNO.
There is another shortcut for Mukhriz (suggested by the anti Mahathir people) but that is highly speculative.
What will become of KJ if Mukhriz runs for Ketua Pemuda and wins? He will remain a Minister - as long as Najib remains PM. Plus he will remain an MP.
To digress cilipadi Blogger Helen Ang has a theory that Khairy Jamaluddin will someday replace Anwar Ibrahim as the figurehead leader of the Pakatan Rakyat. You can read it here :
Stepping into Anwar’s shoes
If the DAP Chinese evangelistas can pull the Muslim chameleon act, why not a Malay politician make himself acceptable to the non-Muslim religions?
And you know who is Anwar the Second in the making.
Zahid Hamidi, Zul Noordin and others in their time zone only appeal to the Umno hardliners. Umno will be like the Republican Party in the US losing to their opponent who can better fish the minority vote.
So if we’re talking about the cobbling together of a rainbow coalition government across the aisles, can you imagine Khairy in the Pakatan framework? Endless possibilities, eh?
Mukhriz has unique opportunities available to him - but unique only to 2013. If he does not grab them, they may not present themselves again in the future.
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