Ismail Sabri said the party meeting with division chiefs was only to discuss ways to strengthen Umno, which was nothing extraordinary.
He was then asked if Umno leaders had pressed him to call for national elections sooner rather than later.Elaborating, Sabri explained that he was given the impression that nothing extraordinary was discussed at the Umno meeting based on party deputy president Datuk Mohamad Hasan’s post-meeting statement last night.
Umno division leaders had met at the party headquarters last night for a meeting with president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Local news outlet Astro Awani cited an anonymous source close to Umno saying that division leaders had been forced to attend the meeting or risk being left out of being named as candidates in the 15th general election.The source also claimed that many Umno division heads believed that the party would lose at the polls if the PM should intercede on Najib’s behalf on court matters.
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