SAPP Not Sacked!

"You too?" The Prime Minister seems to be asking PBS president Joseph Pairin (left) as he arrived at the meeting. In the background is PBRS president Joseph Kurup.

The man who started it all....SAPP president Yong Teck Lee

The Supreme Council meeting of Malaysia's ruling coalition, the National Front or BN at the party headquarters in Kuala Lumpur which started just before 3pm and chaired by BN chairman and Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi or Pak Lah has just ended.

According to The Star, Malaysia's leading tabloid daily, it was decided that any decision on action against SAPP will only be made after getting official explanation on its statement on plan to table no-confidence motion against the PM in Parliament next week.

Quoting BN secretary-general Tengku Adnan Mansor, The Star Online added that all (remaining 13) BN component parties have denounced SAPP's statement as "unethical and against spirit of BN."

Tengku Adnan, a former Malaysian Minister, further said that all MPs from BN component parties will be told to attend Parliament sitting throughout the whole period and reject any no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister; suggesting that the BN is not taking SAPP's threat lightly.


Meanwhile, the New Straits Times, another Malaysian tabloid, quoted the Prime Minister himself as saying that no action would be taken against SAPP because the announcement was made by Yong and not the party.

"No action would be taken against the two SAPP MPs either as the statements were made outside Parliament . He added that there was no rush to take action because the party has not done anything wrong yet," the paper quoted Pak Lah has saying.