Least Corrupt Shall Win

Today ( 9 Oct'08) the UMNO President and Prime Minister of Malaysia announced that he is not going to contest the Presidency post in the next UMNO elections slated in March 2009. This gives him slighly less than 6 months to clean up whatever is possible with UMNO. For one thing I think it is his affirmative actions against corruption in the party that got him into real political troubles with the entrenched politicians in his party who had enjoyed power and accumulated wealth during the reign of Dr.Mahathir and would not want to relinguish them. Disappointment over these entrenced power elites have started during Dr.Mahathir's times and Abdullah Badawi couldn't do much except deal with them, some his close friends and comrades in UMNO. By not contesting UMNO Abdullah has opened the floodgates of these remaining power elites to cling further to their power and individual properity it brings into a free for all fight. At least the result as I can see it is that the likely winners would be those perceived as the least corrupted among the corrupts. What I say here is not inconsistent with surveys in Malaysia that conclude that of all Malaysian profession, the politicians are the most corrupt.