KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has been formally appointed as Barisan Nasional chairman, taking over from Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad who has retired.
Leaders of 13 of the 14 Barisan component parties present at the coalition’s supreme council meeting in Putra World Trade Centre yesterday unanimously endorsed the Prime Minister as the coalition chief. Strife-torn Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) was not represented.
