KINI ROUNDUP | Here are the key headlines you may have missed yesterday, in brief.
Kit Siang sees retirement
DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said he believes the 14th general election will be his last electoral contest.
He said this at a DAP fundraising dinner attended by former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who defended his cooperation with DAP.
Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak claimed Mahathir was turning to the DAP as he failed to woo Malays to his cause.
Johor Umno said it planned to return the Gelang Patah seat, which was won by Lim, to the MCA in the next general election.
PAS vice-president Iskandar Samad was dropped as the Selangor PAS commissioner.
PAS central committee member Nik Mohamad Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz said Pakatan Harapan’s chances of winning Putrajaya are distant without his party.
PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan said PAS has alternative plans, in response to analysts saying that PAS stands to lose the most if the party severs ties with PKR.
Nur Jazlan laments M’sian intolerance
Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed lamented the low tolerance among Malaysians, in reference to a fight that occurred outside a surau in Johor.
Inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar warned that cops will act against anyone who used the incident to stir racial and religious sentiments.
Four men who were involved in the assault on the driver who had honked incessantly during Friday prayers outside the surau were arrested.
The Penang Island City Council said 52 percent of illegal traders it acted against were Chinese, followed by 34 percent Malays, 10 percent Indians and 13 percent others, in response to claims that they were targeting Malay traders.
Erdogan purge in Malaysia?
The wife of a Turkish citizen rebutted Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s claim that her husband was involved with the Islamic State, but admitted that he was a sympathiser of the Gulen movement which is being purged by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
UK’s The Guardian reported that the Turkish citizen whom Malaysian police said is being probed for terror links had previously met Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.
Another 107 judges and lawyers were reportedly sacked in Turkey as part of the Erdogan government's move to cleanse all elements sympathetic to an attempted coup last year.
Other Kinibites
PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar said Ampang PKR Youth chief Adam Rosly should be ignored after he launched a broadside against her fellow party vice-president Rafizi Ramli.
Pakatan Harapan said it received over 130 logo proposals after inviting public submissions.
PBB vice-president Awang Tengah was appointed Sarawak deputy chief minister in the state’s cabinet reshuffle.
Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua urged the consortium that was supposed to buy a 60 percent stake in Bandar Malaysia but saw the deal terminated to come clean on the details.
Muhammad Rahimi Osman, a former aide of PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, launched a broadside against whistleblower portal Sarawak Report for supposedly trying to ruin prime minister’s wife Rosmah Mansor’s visit to the United Kingdom.
Looking ahead
Parti Amanah Negara, through Persatuan Anak Peneroka Felda Kebangsaan, is set to sign an agreement on combatting corruption with Ezam Mohd Nor, who leads the Hisbah Centre for Reform and Parti Bebas Rasuah.
