KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Razak has echoed the prime minister's statement on whether to make public the Royal Commission report on the V.K. Lingam video clip.

He said the decision would only be made after both he and Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi finished reading it.

When asked if the report would be released to the public, Najib said: "I don't know. I haven't seen the report yet. Let me have a look at it first, the prime minister (Abdullah) wants to study it first as well," he said at the Putra World Trade Centre after Umno's 62nd anniversary celebrations yesterday.

A four-volume report by the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the 'Lingam' video clip, which allegedly featured Lingam brokering judicial appointments, was submitted to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on Friday.

Meanwhile, Umno Youth exco member Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir said the report should be made public because it was the people's right to read it.
The son of former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he had no reservations about the report being made available to ordinary citizens.

On judicial reforms which Abdullah proposed in April, Mukhriz said: "Reforms are good but I also need to be convinced that the judicial reforms will make us win the next election, because I don't see how reforms will bring back confidence to Barisan Nasional."

"If we don't solve issues like rising oil and consumer goods prices, I don't think we'll win the elections."