PUTRAJAYA, 27 May 2009: The Registrar of Societies (RoS) will decide on the validity of 24 May’s PPP extraordinary general assembly and the existence of “two PPP presidents.” Registrar Datuk Md Alias Kalil said investigations would be carried out as soon as possible and a report would be handed over to Prime Minister Datuk Seri [...]

PUTRAJAYA, 26 May 2009: Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has called for a swift end to the crisis facing the PPP, its president Datuk M Kayveas said. He said that Muhyiddin, who is deputy Barisan Nasional (BN) chairperson, conveyed this at their meeting at the deputy prime minister’s office here. Kayveas, who declined [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 26 May 2009: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he would verify the People’s Progressive Party (PPP)’s status before deciding whether to accept the party’s invitation to open its general assembly. Najib, who is also Barisan Nasional chairperson, said the PPP had invited him to open the general assembly on 7 June. [...]

SHAH ALAM, 25 May 2009: The Selangor People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has lodged a police report against Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s department T Murugiah for allegedly conducting an illegal extraordinary general meeting (EGM) in Putrajaya, yesterday. PPP vice-president Datuk Maglin D’Cruz, who was at the head of 12 Selangor PPP supreme council and [...]

KUANTAN, 25 May 2009: PPP president Datuk M Kayveas has challenged Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator T Murugiah to form a new party “so that he can become the president of the new party instead of creating all kinds of problems in PPP.” “I challenge him… if he’s so good, why not [...]

PUTRAJAYA, 24 May 2009: The political crisis in the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) continues to deteriorate when an emergency meeting claimed to be attended by 1,760 delegates from 778 party branches chose Senator Datuk T Murugiah as the new president.  The latest development gave the impression as though the PPP now has two presidents, while [...]