Comment on CM-Elect Adenan in tricky Deputy tangle by looes74

February 15, 2014

by Terence Netto@http://www.malaysiakini.com

COMMENT In his first press conference after being named Chief Minister-elect of Sarawak, Adenan Satem (right) said he will not be making any changes to his cabinet.

I dont believe in changing horses in midstream, cracked Adenan at his first press conference yesterday, when asked about what he plans to do with a state cabinet he will have inherited from retiring CM Abdul Taib Mahmud.

Last Wednesday, Adenan was chosen by Abdul Taib as the replacement chief minister when the latter retires on February 28.

While the 69-year-old Adenan wont want to rock the boat for the simple reason that the major movers and shakers in the state BN are all on edge at the start of the post-Taib era, he cannot defer for long the naming of the Deputy Chief Ministers.

Under Taibs 33-year tenure as Chief Minister, Sarawak was used to having two Deputy Chief Ministers.

Alfred Jabu Numpang (left), Deputy President of Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB), is the incumbent DCM (1), and while he was in the cabinet until his defeat in the state election of April 2011, George Chan of Sarawak United Peoples Party (SUPP) was DCM (2).

The DCM (2) post has been vacant since the 2011 state polls when SUPP lost in 12 of the 19 constituencies it contested.

Once installed as Chief Minister on February 28, would Adenan simply maintain the status quo, with Alfred Jabu as DCM (1) and leave the other DCM post vacant, or would he tweak the formula of balanced representation to reflect a new pecking order?

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Comment on CM-Elect Adenan in tricky Deputy tangle by looes74