Tok Mat’s loyalty will see him become Umno no.1, says analyst

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PETALING JAYA: Umno’s best chance at winning the next general election is for the party to put the right person in the driver’s seat for Umno and Barisan Nasional, says a political analyst.

And for Council of Professors fellow Jeniri Amir, the right “driver” is Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan, who is one of three prominent presidential candidates for the party elections this year.

The other two are foreign minister Hishammuddin Hussein and defence minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob.

Hishamuddin, a former vice-president, is a party “blue blood”: his grandfather is Onn Jaafar, the party founder, and his father, Hussein Onn was the party’s fourth president.


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