He was appointed by his party in 2009 to replace former leader Abdullah Badawi.
In October last year a pro-business moderate, Abdullah Badawi, was elected to succeed Mahathir.
UMNO's "Mr. Clean", Foreign Minister Abdullah Badawi, ousted three years ago, was swept back in.
Malaysia's prime minister, Abdullah Badawi, and Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, have tried to calm things.
It also includes noted UMNO critics of Mr. Mahathir such as Khairy Jamaluddin, son-in-law of previous Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi.
Similarly, Mr Najib took over after an internal party coup in April 2009 against the then prime minister, Abdullah Badawi.
Scientists from the U.S. and Australia have flown in to help an anti-virus task force headed by deputy premier Abdullah Badawi.
Mr. Najib came to power after his predecessor, Abdullah Badawi, failed to win the National Front's customary two-thirds control of parliament in 2008.
His successor, Abdullah Badawi, is wooing investors back with tax breaks.
In Kuala Lumpur, he won promises of co-operation from Abdullah Badawi, the prime minister of Malaysia, which Mr Thaksin used to accuse of sheltering militant leaders.
The prime minister is now under pressure to win the deserters back and to bolster support for his new deputy, Abdullah Badawi, supposedly his anointed successor.
Mr Cook had said much the same a few days earlier in meetings with Malaysia's foreign minister, Abdullah Badawi, and the deputy prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim.
More pertinently, it also decided to support unopposed the prime minister's anointed successor (and Mr Anwar's replacement as deputy prime minister), Abdullah Badawi, as deputy president of the party.
They included not just Anwar Ibrahim, jailed and beaten up, but his actual successor, Abdullah Badawi, against whom he railed in his blog, having the satisfaction of seeing him unseated last year.
Mr. Najib himself replaced former leader Abdullah Badawi in 2009 after the opposition broke the National Front's comfortable two-thirds majority in the 2008 polls, turning Malaysia into a genuine two-party system for the first time in its history.
When Abdullah Badawi stepped down as prime minister in 2009 after a poor showing in elections the previous year, Mr. Najib took the position and quickly rebranded the premiership, loosening some of Malaysia's race barriers and opting for a presidential style that focused heavily on social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
Mr Najib Razak assumed office in the wake of the election, replacing Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
BBC: Malaysian PM Najib Razak paves way for general election
The challenges to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi--from many sides--are clear.
The Malaysian police's revelations came at the end of their investigation into how a company linked to the son of Malaysia's prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, had made centrifuge parts which were found on a ship bound for Libya last October.
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