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(From left) Yong, SAPP Women's Wing chief Melanie Chia and vice president Dr Chua Soon Bui reading a sms text on the phone at the press conference after the party's supreme council meeting yesterday. Who could the sender of the sms be? Anwar? The ACA? (Pic courtesy of The Star)Will Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Yong Teck Lee become the first Sabahan or East Malaysian from Borneo island to be a Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia which was born in 1963? Not only that, if he is appointed he will also be the first Chinese or non-Malay to hold the No.2 post in the Malaysian Cabinet.
This possibility was expounded on by Malaysian lawmaker Khairy Jamaluddin last night in Kota Baharu in Kelantan state, one of Malaysia's 13.
Khairy who is UMNO Youth vice-chief said Yong's declaration that SAPP has lost confidence in his (Khairy's) father-in-law,Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was due to Yong being taken in by former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim's offer.
Khairy who is Member of Parliament for Rembau said he was made to understand that Yong would be appointed to the number 2 post in the government if Anwar was to be prime minister.
"I heard loads were offered (to Yong) like the deputy prime minister's post and oil royalties," he told reporters after having closed-door meeting with 14 UMNO Youth heads of Kelantan. Sabah has been fighting fruitlessly for an increase in oil royalty from 5% to 20% from the central government for the last two decades.
Meanwhile, de facto Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said last night that Pakatan Rakyat (People's Alliance) now needed only 28 crossover members of parliament to form the Malaysian government.
Pakatan Rakyat needed 30 to do so but Anwar said with two SAPP MPs supporting a motion of no-confidence against the prime minister the pact now needed only 28 MPs to switch sides.
"We want to congratulate Yong and the two SAPP MPs," Anwar said at a gathering in conjunction with the 100th day of Pakatan Rakyat's rule in Selangor state attended by about 10,000 people at the Shah Alam stadium, according to Bernama.
He was confident that Pakatan Rakyat would be able to form the government, saying the ruling BN was in disarray.
Pakatan Rakyat has 82 MPs while BN has 140. BN lost its two-thirds majority in Parliament in the recent election. The opposition also won control of five (six if the Federal Territory of KL is to be included) states on March 8, leaving BN with only 8.
My say: Will an East Malaysian from Sabah or Sarawak ever be a Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia in our lifetime? Or will the two Borneo states get their 20% oil royalty before the oil reserves run out? I do not want to play the role of God but as they say, in politics anything is possible. But by the same token too, the opposition may never form the central government in our lifetime!)
This possibility was expounded on by Malaysian lawmaker Khairy Jamaluddin last night in Kota Baharu in Kelantan state, one of Malaysia's 13.
Khairy who is UMNO Youth vice-chief said Yong's declaration that SAPP has lost confidence in his (Khairy's) father-in-law,Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was due to Yong being taken in by former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim's offer.
Khairy who is Member of Parliament for Rembau said he was made to understand that Yong would be appointed to the number 2 post in the government if Anwar was to be prime minister.
"I heard loads were offered (to Yong) like the deputy prime minister's post and oil royalties," he told reporters after having closed-door meeting with 14 UMNO Youth heads of Kelantan. Sabah has been fighting fruitlessly for an increase in oil royalty from 5% to 20% from the central government for the last two decades.
Meanwhile, de facto Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said last night that Pakatan Rakyat (People's Alliance) now needed only 28 crossover members of parliament to form the Malaysian government.
Pakatan Rakyat needed 30 to do so but Anwar said with two SAPP MPs supporting a motion of no-confidence against the prime minister the pact now needed only 28 MPs to switch sides.
"We want to congratulate Yong and the two SAPP MPs," Anwar said at a gathering in conjunction with the 100th day of Pakatan Rakyat's rule in Selangor state attended by about 10,000 people at the Shah Alam stadium, according to Bernama.
He was confident that Pakatan Rakyat would be able to form the government, saying the ruling BN was in disarray.
Pakatan Rakyat has 82 MPs while BN has 140. BN lost its two-thirds majority in Parliament in the recent election. The opposition also won control of five (six if the Federal Territory of KL is to be included) states on March 8, leaving BN with only 8.
My say: Will an East Malaysian from Sabah or Sarawak ever be a Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia in our lifetime? Or will the two Borneo states get their 20% oil royalty before the oil reserves run out? I do not want to play the role of God but as they say, in politics anything is possible. But by the same token too, the opposition may never form the central government in our lifetime!)
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