Najib says wont lose sleep if PR states snub snap polls

May 27, 2011

Lim said snap polls next year would be less objectionable. file picKUALA LUMPUR, May 27 Datuk Seri Najib Razak today said he was unperturbed by DAPs objections to Pakatan Rakyat-ruled states following suit if the prime minister calls for snap polls this year.I'm not worried about what they will do because I cannot control their actions. I will only give serious consideration to things that I can do, he said after Umnos supreme council meeting today.On Tuesday, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said the partys central executive committee agreed on the position at its meeting yesterday as the party preferred for all four PR governments to complete their full five-year term.But if snap polls are called next year, then there is a greater likelihood that we would agree to hold concurrent elections, he told a press conference at the partys headquarters here this morning.PR currently runs the Penang, Selangor, Kelantan and Kedah state governments.Najib is widely tipped to call for an early general election this year, but did not comment on the matter today.The Malaysian Insider understands, however, that Najib is likely to delay snap polls until the end of this year or early 2012 as his party hunts for funds to finance a campaign to court Bumiputera and Indian voters and secure a two-thirds parliamentary majority.It is understood Umnos coffers were depleted after BN spent some RM500 million for the April 16 Sarawak election.Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, however, told The Malaysian Insider that he believes Umnos increasingly ultra-Malay stance as well as the emergence of a sex video aimed at discrediting PRs image are definite signs that general elections will be called by August.