Umno harps on pardon for Najib in bid to clean up party’s image: Analysts

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Umno harps on pardon for Najib in bid to clean up party’s image: Analysts
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It is trying to divert attention from its leadership flaws and waning support among Malay Muslims. Read more at straitstimes.com.

is a tactic to absolve the party whose image has been tainted by corruption, while diverting attention from its leadership flaws and waning support among the Malay-Muslim voters, say analysts.during Umno’s general assembly. Najib’s son Mohd Nizar Najib also stood up in the audience to ask Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to release his father, while his daughter Nooryana Najib told Umno that forgetting Najib means to forget the party’s core values.

Dr Zahid appears to be compelled to openly ask for a pardon to appease Umno’s grassroots in order to not lose support within the party, said Mr Halmie Azrie Abdul Halim, a senior analyst at Vriens and Partners, a government regulatory affairs and political risk consultancy. “Umno grassroots still prefer to ‘clean’ Najib instead of accepting the fact that their party is in tatters,” he told The Straits Times.in January, which meant that the Umno president could not be challenged in its internal polls.claimed that the name tags of many delegates were removed

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