Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (R) speaks at a press conference along with his deputy Najib Razak after attending a closed-door gathering of Malaysia's ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in Kuala Lumpur on March 24, 2009. Malaysia's ruling party opens a landmark meeting to elect a new leadership and map out its future, one year after disastrous elections that jeopardised its half-century hold on power.