UMNO Perak sedia hadapi enam PRK

UMNO Perak sedia memasuki gelanggang sekiranya Pilihan Raya Kecil (PRK) dilaksanakan rentetan keputusan Jabatan Pendaftaran Pertubuhan (ROS) meluluskan usul pindaan Perlembagaan Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu), semalam.

Pengerusi Badan Perhubungan UMNO Negeri Perak, Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad bagaimanapun berkata, keputusan ROS berkenaan berkemungkinan tidak memberi kesan kepada enam Ahli Parlimen Bersatu yang menyokong Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Menurut beliau, ia ekoran sokongan yang dinyatakan enam Ahli Parlimen Bersatu kepada perdana menteri, disuarakan sebelum pindaan berkenaan diluluskan semalam dan dikuatkuasa bermula Isnin.

“Pertama saya tidak pasti sama ada pindaan itu memberi kesan atau tidak kepada enam orang yang terlibat kerana pindaan itu tidak ‘backdated’ dia bukan dikuatkuasakan sebelum (sokongan dinyatakan).

“Ia (kelulusan pindaan) berkuatkuasa sekarang dan akan datang dan saya tidak pasti sama ada ia memberi kesan atau tidak,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas hadir pada Majlis Penyerahan Juadah Hari Raya 2024 Kerajaan Negeri Perak kepada Pasukan Beruniform di Dewan Bankuet, Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan di Ipoh, pada Rabu.

Perak Umno ready to face by-elections

PERAK Umno is prepared to face any by-elections resulting from amendments to Bersatu’s constitution, says Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad.

The Mentri Besar said the party is always prepared in the event of a by-election being called.

“If there aren’t any, there will be no problems and we will prepare for the next general election,” he told a press conference after presenting Hari Raya goodies to uniformed units and other agencies at the State Secretariat building in Ipoh on Wednesday (April 3).

He had been asked if Umno was prepared to face by-elections following the approval of amendments to Bersatu’s constitution to revoke the membership of elected representatives who go against the party’s stand.

The Registrar of Societies (ROS) recently approved the amendments, which came into effect on Monday (April 1).

On March 11, Bersatu president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and party secretary-general Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin submitted the amendments to RoS after they were approved at a special general assembly on March 2.