Fear grows that Umno will play ‘third fiddle’ to PAS, Bersatu

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PETALING JAYA: Reports that only Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is in support of working with Pakatan Harapan to form the government are not true, according to a source in Barisan Nasional.

The source said forming the government with Perikatan Nasional would see Umno playing “third fiddle” to PAS and Bersatu when it came to Malay interests. There is fear within Umno that it will cease to exist if this happens, the source said.

The source also said many BN MPs did not sign statutory declarations backing Muhyiddin Yassin as the prime minister, contrary to media reports.

“After two years in Muhyiddin’s government, Umno had already become so split with his ‘scheme of things’. Another five years, and Umno will be ‘gone’.

“Some Umno and BN MPs are afraid that having PAS as the leading bloc may not be good for investor and economic confidence. That’s why there is still a dilemma,” the source said.

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