Barring any behind the scene horse trading, three corners fight for the Umno Youth chief is confirmed between nominations leader Mukhriz Mahathir, vice chief Khairy Jamaluddin and former Selangor MB Khir Toyo.
The first two candidates are supported by a former PM and an out-going PM respectively. Does it means Khir Toyo is on his own without any back-up? It is not necessary so.
Khir will be counting on Ali Rustam's 4B Youth Movement to provide him the necessary support and campaigning manpower. It it estimated that one third of Umno' delegates are linked to the 4B. Most of the 4B national and state leaders are also leaders of Umno even though most of them are no more in the youth age category.
The movement has been fully utilised to drummed up support for Ali Rustam and Khir Toyo in last Umno's election in 2004. Even though Ali is from the small state of Malacca he managed to win second placing for the vice president position and Khir was elected with the most votes for a supreme council seat.
The recent surged of the number of nominations for Khir proves his strong networking on the ground. He may not get more nominations than Mukhriz or Khairy but when it comes to voting, the patterns expected to sway to Khir. While Ali is still trailing, with his networking he is also expected to gain enough nominations to challenged Muhyiddin Yassin for the deputy presidency.
Both Khir and Ali will be looking forward to a good harvest from delegates with youth organisations background. They were former presidents of the Malaysian Youth Council. Khir is also the current Asian Youth Council head and Ali the president of the World Assembly of Youth.
The others expected to linked up with youth organisations for support includes Entrepreneur and Cooperative Nor Omar who is 4B deputy president and Reezal Merican who is the Gabungan Pelajar Melayu Semenanjung president. Nor Omar is going for the supreme council seat while Reezal is trying for the Youth vice head.
Interestingly, Reezal will missed the opportunity to contest for the MYC presidency because this year's AGM was postponed to next year by the MYC currently led by another Umno youth exco Shamsul Anuar Nasarah. By next year Reezal will be over 40 and under the Youth Act disqualified from contesting for the MYC presidency . Is this an deliberate attempt to denied Reezal the opportunity to make use of MYC as a vehicle for his Umno political networking?
2 comments:
I was told not to surprise if Khir Toyo win the KP post. It could be with the support from 4B, MAYC, MYC and SYC. Perak SYC itself has a number of G7. That's politics. You know how to play your game, it is yours!
Many of the state youth council leaders are also state Umno youth leaders. Which side the current MYC president Shamsul will be? He is also 4B.
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