The golden age of Umno is on the wane

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From Murray Hunter

Umno is once again deeply split. There is a fracture between the party grassroots, the Supreme Council and the parliamentary caucus. In addition, both the Supreme Council and parliamentary members have divisions and are split on the best way for the party to go in the future.

To complicate things even more, some states are controlled by warlords, who are acting quasi-independently, and engaged with their own rifts and divisions at state-level. Umno from the outside looks like a party about to break apart.

Umno became an institutional icon that was formed in 1946 to fight against the formation of the Malayan Union, on the side of the raja-raja, or royal families, in the interests of defending the feudal Malay structure. Umno later went on to negotiate independence from the British, where the sultans kept their powers.


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