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I changed parties on principle, says Zaid, back in Umno

PETALING JAYA: Zaid Ibrahim, who recently returned to Umno, has defended his past decisions to move from one party to another, saying he moved on principle and not because he coveted positions.

Zaid has been with PKR, Kita, and DAP in the years after he was sacked from Umno in 2008. He rejoined Umno last month.

He said his track record proved that seats and party positions were never a factor for him when swapping parties. “I was never given any party posts,” he said.

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For Zaid Ibrahim, the wheel has come full circle

From Terence Netto

Zaid Ibrahim has gone round the Malaysian political landscape and returned to the point where he first started out.

He has re-joined Umno, his first political affiliation, after having left 14 years ago.

Zaid has played political hopscotch for so long that déjà vu occurs when sorting out the reasons he offers each time he hops.

It is more useful to say who Zaid is, rather than examine the reasons for his switching allegiances.

Zaid is a Malay liberal, someone whose conception of Malay happiness does not redound to non-Malay unhappiness.

Such a person would be worth his weight in gold to a polity so divided along lines of race and religion that people do not know where to start to bring others together.

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