10-07-2021, 10:23 AM
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PETALING JAYA: Who will be the winner if Muafakat Nasional (MN), the alliance between Umno and PAS, falls apart before the next general election?
A divorce looks likely before the election, and analysts are split over whether Umno or Bersatu will emerge as the big winner. They agree that PAS will be hurt because it will lose the backing of Umno and its supporters.
Last Tuesday, Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said it might be time to “move on” from the union that the two parties formed in 2019 because his party needed to face the general election without the uncertainties of the alliance hanging over it.
PAS is also a part of the Bersatu-led Perikatan Nasional coalition but Umno has resolved at its general meeting against working with Bersatu. Caught in between, PAS has said that it plans to back incumbents in constituencies where Umno and Bersatu clash.
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