Then came Mahathir's speech ahead of polling for the three vice-presidents and 25 Supreme Council members.
UMNO's top decision-making body, the Supreme Council, that it needed to tackle the leadership issue quickly.
"There was no conspiracy, " says Ibrahim Ali, a member of the party's Supreme Council.
Mohamed Askar of THE Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said protesters were capturing and wounding soldiers.
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Barisan was due to hold a Supreme Council meeting on June 24, fueling rumors that elections were imminent.
Those rulers, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, have been in control of the country since Mubarak's ouster.
Iraq's Shiite-led ruling coalition is dominated by the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
The alliance includes al-Maliki's Dawa Party and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has insisted that it will hand over power to an elected civilian government.
Barisan is expected to convene its supreme council on June 24, a sign that elections could be round the corner.
To win the presidency it negotiated with the strongest power in Egypt, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
Since then, however, the generals' Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has made a hash of just about everything.
Mr Maliki and Mr Erdogan signed a detailed agreement setting up a "supreme council for strategic co-operation" between the two countries.
"Those involved in (the) Abbasiya clashes and inciting them will be dealt with according to the law, " the Supreme Council said.
Some members of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces may also back him "because he might maintain the status quo, " Ashour said.
One of its constituent parties is the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), of which Mr Mahdi is a member.
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Alaa Al Iraqi, Supreme Council spokesman, said officials warned protesters that the Defense Ministry was "a red line" that shouldn't be crossed.
To answer this question, it's the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
Since Mubarak was thrown from office, Egypt has been ruled by a military junta dubbed the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
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However, Mr Rowhani, Iran's negotiator, is the secretary to the supreme council and was appointed by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The Kurdish delegation also held talks with the Iran-based Iraqi Shia opposition group, the Supreme Council, headed by Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim.
Mamdouh Shahin, a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
On Thursday, more than 100 Ethiopian archbishops, priests, nuns and members of the Islamic Supreme Council turned out to welcome the Eritrean delegation.
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The leader of his supposed allies in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, the ailing Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, seems to be ceding ground.
One of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' first announcements was that it would honour Egypt's international obligations, presumably including Camp David.
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Some participants in the Tahrir Square rally felt their celebrations were overshadowed by the interim constitutional declaration made by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
In its statement, read on state TV by a military official, the Supreme Council said the judiciary is a pillar of Egyptian society.
UMNO's Supreme Council has agreed that there will be no contest for the two top positions when they come up for election in May.
An UMNO supreme council member says party members worry that Abdullah cannot be all that, especially when it comes to facing the resurgent opposition.
The April 6 movement wants accountability from the Supreme Council for the Armed Forces for the deaths of protesters in the Abbasiya clashes Wednesday.
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