‘Let me settle Rembau seat behind closed doors’

KUALA LUMPUR: Discussions behind closed doors will be held with Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan on who will contest the Rembau seat in the 15th General Election (GE15), says incumbent MP Khairy Jamaluddin.

Mohamad said on Saturday that he was indeed vying for a parliamentary constituency in GE15 but that he had yet to decide on which seat he would be contesting.

He said that as the Umno No. 2, it was up to him as to which seat he would contest, adding that other remarks about him going for the Rembau seat were not his concern.

Mohamad, who is also the Rembau Umno division chairman, added that the party’s priority at the moment was to strengthen and prepare the machinery in all divisions before deciding on the issue of seat distribution and candidates.

Khairy, who is the division’s deputy chairman, has been reported as saying that he was asked to vacate his seat by Mohamad, who wanted to run in his place, Bernama reported.

“I have already said what I have to say. I’m not going to have this conversation in public anymore,” he said yesterday.

He added that what he had said earlier was true, but felt that the matter was best settled behind closed doors.