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Malaysia's PM 'to quit in 2010'
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by Jordan Yerman | July 10, 2008 at 05:23 am
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Malaysia's embattled Prime Minister has announced that he will step down in two years' time, leaving power to his deputy. However, the pressure upon him was to step down this year, and his deputy is also accused of misdeeds while holding office.
Mr Abdullah said his deputy, Najib Razak, would take over as head of the Umno party in June 2010.
The prime minister has been under intense pressure to resign over poor election results and high fuel prices.
This pressure was heightened recently when opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he was poised to seize power with the help of government defectors.
But it is not only Mr Abdullah who has been the subject of bad publicity: both Mr Anwar and Mr Najib have been accused of serious misconduct.
Mr Anwar faces allegations of sodomy - a charge he has faced before. He insists the charges have been fabricated by the government.
Mr Najib, meanwhile, has denied accusations of an affair with a Mongolian woman who was then murdered in 2006.
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at 13:26 on July 14th, 2008
well personally I don't think he's that a great PM himself, it's just my humble opinion, but he never bring something new to the nation, just continuing what the rest left off before.
and oh, I also dislike his attitude towards the country's political problem, didn't care about everything and leave it to them to solve such stuff thats going on.. quite irresponsible leader.