KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said that he is confident in retaining the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) presidency if challenged during the next party election. “I have been challenged before. There were two contenders who challenged me ... (Their) votes cou
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said that he is confident in retaining the United Malays National Organisation presidency if challenged during the next party election.
In the 2018 UMNO election, Ahmad Zahid was elected as president after defeating his two challengers, Khairy Jamaluddin and Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. He obtained 93 votes compared with Mr Khairy’s 51 votes and Tengku Razaleigh’s 23 votes. Ahmad Zahid said that UMNO delegates attending the general assembly have"absolute power" to decide whether to remove the top two posts in the party election.
Last week, Ahmad Zahid said that the UMNO general assembly next week will hear his policy speech on the new political landscape facing the party.He also said that it will be up to UMNO delegates to decide whether leaders from the unity government’s ally Pakatan Harapan would be invited to the general assembly.
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