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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19 (AFP) - The
editor-in-chief of Malaysia's best-known newspaper
has gone on six months' leave and a leading
opposition official said Wednesday he had fallen foul
of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Repeated attempts to contact the management of
the New Straits Times proved fruitless but a
spokeswoman confirmed Kadir Jasin had gone on six
months' leave from Tuesday to clear his outstanding
vacation time.
Lim Kit Siang, chairman of the opposition
Democratic Action Party, said Kadir had gone on
leave "before being placed to pasture in some
corporate or government nook by his superiors."
"Kadir Jasin is the latest casualty of the
undemocratic media stranglehold of the prime
minister," Lim said in a statement.
"Kadir's fate was sealed when the New Straits
Times recently published articles advocating that
contest should be allowed at least for the number
two post in the UMNO party elections."
Leaders of Mahathir's United Malays National
Organisation (UMNO) have recommended the premier
and his deputy Abdullah Ahmad Badawi be unopposed
as party president and deputy president during
leadership polls on May 11.
Ahmad Nazri Abdullah, editor of the New Straits
Times group's Malay-language daily Berita Harian,
resigned in July 1998 after a series of run-ins with
Mahathir.
The editor-in-chief of rival newspaper Utusan
Malaysia also resigned at the same time for similar
reasons. Both were seen as being too close to
then-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, who was sacked
by the premier in September that year.
Lim said the UMNO party and leadership were
"undergoing a rapid pace of Stalinisation where there
could not only be no contest for the two top UMNO
posts -- no criticism is permitted."
He expressed concern for former deputy premier
Ghafar Baba, who this week spoke out against the
no-contest rule.
Ghafar, who had said the premier and Abdullah
should face an election to seek direct endorsement
from party members, is the most influential member
so far to express disagreement with the "no contest"
move.
UMNO is the dominant party in the ruling National
Front coalition and its president and deputy
president are automatically prime minister and deputy
premier.
The deputy presidency has been vacant since
deputy premier Anwar was sacked in September 1998
and the party expelled him. Abdullah took over as
deputy premier but has yet to be confirmed in the
UMNO number two post.
The Supreme Council's stand, which Mahathir says
is only "advice" to members, gave Abdullah's status
as Mahathir's preferred successor a big boost.
Mahathir, 74, says this will be his last term.
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