12-27-2022, 10:53 AM
Top Umno posts must be contested for sake of party, country
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From Ibrahim M Ahmad
Umno secretary-general Ahmad Maslan’s statement that its Supreme Council has yet to decide whether the posts of party president and deputy president will be contested at its upcoming elections shows that party leaders are totally out of touch with the sentiments of the rakyat.
The question as to whether the top posts in the party ought to be contested should not even be up for discussion.
If Umno wishes to lead a democratically elected government – as it will surely want to do at the next general and state elections – it must first show itself to abide by basic democratic principles. That would mean being itself led by democratically elected officials.
Leaders who insist on remaining in office without being elected to the position are simply further alienating party members and the electorate by insisting that they have some divine right to hold on to power.
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Umno secretary-general Ahmad Maslan’s statement that its Supreme Council has yet to decide whether the posts of party president and deputy president will be contested at its upcoming elections shows that party leaders are totally out of touch with the sentiments of the rakyat.
The question as to whether the top posts in the party ought to be contested should not even be up for discussion.
If Umno wishes to lead a democratically elected government – as it will surely want to do at the next general and state elections – it must first show itself to abide by basic democratic principles. That would mean being itself led by democratically elected officials.
Leaders who insist on remaining in office without being elected to the position are simply further alienating party members and the electorate by insisting that they have some divine right to hold on to power.
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