Don’t hope for a changed Umno after party polls, says former editor
(TMI) – In his latest blog entry today, former New Straits Times group editor Datuk A. Kadir Jasin said the October elections will not bring about much change.
“The only way the party will change is if it should lose in the general election,” he declared.
Even though Umno has introduced changes in the way it elected its top leadership, a former editor thinks it will not result in a changed party.
Some 146,500 Umno members from 161 divisions nationwide will elect the party’s top leadership in line with changes introduced to the party’s constitution in 2009.
In his latest blog entry today, former New Straits Times group editor Datuk A. Kadir Jasin said the October elections will not bring about much change.
“The only way the party will change is if it should lose in the general election,” he declared.
Kadir said there was little hope for any change in the party and noted that the strong elements of resentment which were present during former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s administration and which had served to hasten his departure from office was relatively non-existent or weak now, although the party had improved on its 2008 general election. However, the Barisan Nasional failed to regain its two-thirds majority.
