{"id":6090,"date":"2021-08-18T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T05:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=6090"},"modified":"2021-08-18T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T05:34:33","slug":"a-battle-of-numbers-on-the-cards-for-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/08\/18\/a-battle-of-numbers-on-the-cards-for-new-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"A Battle of Numbers On The Cards for New Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: As the closing time of 4pm is drawing nearer for MPs to submit their choice for the prime minister to Istana Negara, former Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak said it is possible to have a new  Prime Minister with a slim majority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems we are going through another process of voting for a new PM based on party choices. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Again, this means it becomes a battle of numbers with probably another slim majority,&#8221; he said in his latest Facebook posting.<\/p>\n<p>The former Sabah Chief Minister said he hoped for new \u201cgovernance\u201d, instead of a \u201cmere political solution\u201d to the current impasse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us wait for the decision by the YDPA (Yang di-Pertuan Agong),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The MPs are required to submit their choice for the prime minister to Istana Negara before 4pm today.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Barisan Nasional MPs said they had unanimously agreed to name Umno vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob as their prime minister candidate, while the opposition bloc is banking on Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to deliver the goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: As the closing time of 4pm is drawing nearer for MPs to submit their choice for the prime minister to Istana Negara, former Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak said it is possible to have a new Prime Minister with a slim majority. &#8220;It seems we are going through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}