Sebagai sebuah institusi politik yang memegang teguh kepada prinsip kedaulatan undang-undang disamping menghormati kebebasan serta kewibawaan badan kehakiman negara, Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO Malaysia akur dengan keputusan mahkamah hari ini dalam kes yang melibatkan Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO menyambut baik kesediaan Kerajaan, lanjutan daripada mesyuarat di antara Kongres Kesatuan pekerja-pekerja dalam Perkhidmatan Awam (CEUPACS) bersama YAB Perdana Menteri Dato' Sri Najib Tun Razak hari ini, untuk menangguhkan tarikh perlaksanaan skim sistem Saraan Baru Perkhidmatan Awam (SBPA) bagi membolehkan rundingan bersama diadakan diantara Jabatan Perkidmatan Awam (JPA) dan CEUPACS dijalankan.

(This post appears as a column in the latest edition of The Edge)

UMNO general assemblies have tended to create the wrong sort of headlines for non-members. For those on the outside looking in, they are sometimes left exasperated by the speeches and sentiments aired during the most eagerly followed political party conference in Malaysia. But such is the nature of these meetings - and something perhaps unbeknownst to those who only get a sense of what transpired through headlines in online news portals - that speeches from the floor do not constitute the party's policies nor do they necessarily reflect the thinking of the leadership.