Umno MPs meet tonight as SD submission deadline looms, group of ‘G10’ holdouts emerge

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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 — Umno federal lawmakers will meet at their party headquarters tonight, believed to be for discussions on their candidate to be the next prime minister that must be submitted tomorrow.

The meeting scheduled for 8pm is expected to include all 38 of the party’s parliamentarians.

Malay Mail was informed that Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob was racing against time to secure the support of all his party’s lawmakers to be their nominee for the post.

However, an internal source said that 10 of the 15 MPs who rejected Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin have so far refused to back Ismail Sabri, Muhyiddin’s deputy prior to the former’s resignation yesterday.



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