Umno delegates to decide on top 2 posts, says ‘democrat’ Zahid

 

Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says he was always been in favour of the top two posts in the party being contested. (Bernama pic)

PETALING JAYA: Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said he will leave it to the delegates to decide whether the presidency and deputy presidency should be contested at the party polls.

As a democrat, Zahid said, he was of the view that it should be up to the delegates to have a say on the type of democratic system Umno should adopt.

Zahid said he had been in favour of the top two posts being contested when he was named the president in 2018, despite the fact that it was decided at the 2017 Umno general meeting that there was no need for these posts to be contested.

He said this in response to calls from within the party for both posts to be contested during a talk that was streamed online this evening.

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