‘WE ARE IN DISARRAY, I TOO DON’T KNOW WHY’ – IN SHOCK ADMISSION, UMNO NO.2 MAT HASSAN SHOWS HE’S AS INCOMPETENT AS ZAHID: NO WONDER UMNO MPs ARE JUMPING SHIP – WHO WANTS TO BE STUCK IN A ‘VISION-LESS’ PARTY THAT CANNOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE COUNTRY, IN FACT THE FASTER THEY JUMP THE BETTER FOR THEM & THEIR CONSTITUENTS

THE country’s largest Malay party remains in a disorganised and confused state, almost six months after suffering its worst electoral defeat, admitted party deputy president Mohamad Hasan.

Mohamad said as a party with a large number of lawmakers, Umno should not be in a directionless state.

“How can we strengthen? Face reality, we have lost. We are no longer a government party.

“We must change our ways, not move as a government party but as an opposition party,” he was quoted as saying by the Malay-language Utusan Malaysia.

“Umno is now in disarray. We are confused and directionless. I, too, don’t know what the reason is.”

Mohamad said party members should temporarily forget about returning to power, but focus on reclaiming the trust of the Malays.

He said Umno needs to be built up with the values and ideology that can be accepted by the people, especially the Malays who had rejected Umno in the 14^thgeneral election.

The former Negri Sembilan menteri besar said Umno will need 10 years to recover and rise again.

Until then, he said the party needs to be the check and balance and call out government policies that do not benefit the people.

“We should be focusing our attention on being critics of the Pakatan Harapan government, which, until now, doesn’t seem to have a clear direction,” he said.

“What are their policies, I’m not even sure. They look preoccupied with finding fault with the Barisan Nasional government.”

the malaysian insight