PUTRAJAYA: Umno and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia leaders are huddled in multiple meetings within their own parties, following Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin's announcement to resign as Prime Minister.

       It is understood that Umno's political bureau is currently meeting, to be followed by a supreme council meeting later on Monday (Aug 16).

       Umno had said that the supreme council would decide on the party's candidate as prime minister, pointing out that such a decision could not be made by one individual.

       There has been talk that party vice-president Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob is among the names touted as Umno's prime minister candidate.

       In PETALING JAYA, the Bersatu supreme council is having a meeting at its party headquarters here, while party MPs are starting to gather at the Perikatan headquarters in Damansara.

       It is believed they will discuss and tally how much support Bersatu president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Umno's Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob have respectively to be the ninth prime minister.

       Bersatu supreme council members started arriving for a meeting at Yayasan Selangor with Muhyiddin Yassin at about 2.30pm.

       A supreme council member, who is also a minister, said that the meeting was to discuss the possibility of getting more support for Muhyiddin as the next prime minister.

       "He still has the most number of MPs compared to others who are vying to be the next prime minister.

       We want to discuss our next course of action now that he has tendered his resignation and is the caretaker Prime Minister," he said.