KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 — Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said he should not be the only one expected to take the fall for Umno’s loss during the 15th general...
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 — Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said he should not be the only one expected to take the fall for Umno’s loss during the 15th general election .
“So stop the blame game. Do some soul searching and conduct postmortems on why we performed badly. In GE15 we partly lost in getting youth votes. We fielded almost 80 per cent new and young candidates but we failed due to some factors such as internal sabotaging,” he toldAnalysts have said that Umno’s disastrous performance in GE15 was a result of too much friction within the party.
Since then, Perikatan Nasional, which is the coalition that PAS belongs to, has been building up on narratives that could attract the hearts and minds of Malays by portraying itself as a conservative front. “In any election, funding is much needed, BN especially Umno has very little funding, Our opponents used this weakness to use a very heavy rein, probably a week before voting day, on us. They used whatever resources to fish for and reward the young voters.
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