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Finance Twitter: Anwar’s a fake reformist being politically manipulated, outmanoeuvred and backstabbed by Umno
KUALA LUMPUR, April 28, 2026: International socio-political news website, Finance Twitter, has posted a damning feature on Malaysia’s 10th Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
The feature, re-posted by The Coverage, is titled How UMNO Outsmarts & Backstabs Anwar – The Calculated Power Grab in Negeri Sembilan.No News Is Bad News reproduces below the feature:
How UMNO Outsmarts & Backstabs Anwar – The Calculated Power Grab in Negeri Sembilan
28 April, 2026
According to Finance Twitter , Just because Anwar Ibrahim has gallons of UMNO blood and DNA in his body does not mean UMNO welcomes him as one of its kind. And just because the 10th Prime Minister naively dropped all the corruption charges against leaders of the Malay nationalist party does not mean the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) would not betray and backstab the moron PM.
For more than 3 years since the formation of the multi-coalition Unity Government by Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan and Zahid-led Barisan Nasional, UMNO – the backbone of Barisan Nasional – has been playing a clever game. Keeping a low profile to cleanse its toxic image of corruption, arrogance and extremism, the party is determined to return to its former glory of leading the country.
And the strategy works like a charm. Today, it’s PKR president Anwar Ibrahim – not UMNO president Zahid Hamidi – who is seen to be racist, corrupt, power-crazy, hypocrite, arrogant, doublespeak, and whatnot. Because narcissist Anwar loves to be praised and wants to be worshiped every minute, everyone gladly and synchronously took a few steps back to leave Anwar in front and look like a hero taking charge.
That makes the prime minister more arrogant and hungrier for a second term because power corrupts him. That explains why the fake reformist was incredibly mad and furious when someone disagreed with him, especially when that someone was none other than (former) PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli. When even his own deputy criticized him, Anwar not only lost face, but felt threatened.
While the People’s Justice Party PKR under the leadership of Anwar is doing an excellent job undermining and splitting itself – through changing voting mechanisms, vote-rigging, and bribery – just to boot outspoken Rafizi in exchange of cronies and dynastic politics, UMNO has done exactly the opposite, opening its door via “Rumah Bangsa” to former members to strengthen the party.
UMNO also cleverly outsourced the dirty jobs of its trademark inflammatory and hateful provocation as well as racist politics towards the Chinese community to Akmal Saleh, the party’s Youth Chief. The goal was to swing back its traditional Malay supporters who had abandoned UMNO, which led to the collapse of the ruling Barisan Nasional government in the May 2018 General Election.
The best part is, while Anwar endorses Zahid’s plan of making ethnic Chinese the punching bag, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) under the leadership of spineless secretary-general Anthony Loke Siew Fook – clearly drunk with power – keeps quiet since 2022 even as the Chinese community, which contributed 95% of votes to both PKR and DAP, was terrorized by the despicable Akmal.
Zahid pitched the idea that to fight the religious extremist PAS Islamist party and the racist bigot Bersatu party, UMNO through Akmal must be allowed to bully the Chinese in order to convince Malays to return to UMNO. Anwar argued that UMNO-Malays are more important and Chinese voters have no other option but to vote blindly for Pakatan Harapan. And the useless Loke was convinced for the “greater good”.
However, behind closed doors, Zahid Hamidi has been having secret meetings with both opposition parties, PAS and Bersatu, to form a cooperation bloc for the 16th General Election. Following the meetings, Zahid during the 2025 UMNO General Assembly in January, shared his party’s pretext of uniting all Malay and Islamic parties under the so-called “grand collaboration”.
Yes, while both Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Transport Minister Anthony Loke were still dreaming about collaboration with UMNO in the next national polls, they were jolted by a surprise betrayal. Negeri Sembilan’s Chief Minister has lost his majority in the southern Malaysian state after all 14 assemblymen from UMNO withdrew support for him on Monday (April 27, 2026).
This leaves Chief Minister Aminuddin Harun, the vice-president in Premier Anwar Ibrahim’s Parti Keadilan Rakyat, with the support of just 17 members in the 36-strong state legislature – short of the 19 needed to form a simple-majority state government. Suddenly, panicking Pakatan Harapan lawmakers who had been in slumber land are now scrambling to remind UMNO about their alliance and cooperation.
Negeri Sembilan UMNO chief Jalaluddin Alias claimed they were dissatisfied that Mr Aminuddin had excluded them from any discussion about the state ruler’s crisis. “Such a crisis is seen as potentially affecting the administration of the Negeri Sembilan state government and, indirectly, significantly impacting government stability and social harmony,” – argued Jalaluddin.
The Negeri Sembilan crisis follows an attempt on April 19 by the traditional chieftains, known as the Undang, to oust the state’s ruler, Tuanku Muhriz Tuanku Munawir. The next day, Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) Aminuddin recklessly and prematurely dismissed the attempt, declaring the move invalid. In retaliation, the chieftains then fought back on April 21, calling for Mr Aminuddin’s removal.
The Undang also boycotted the opening of the state assembly on April 23, a day after they said they wanted the session to be deferred pending the installation of a new ruler of their choosing – Tunku Nadzaruddin Tuanku Ja’afar. Despite losing his majority, Mr Aminuddin insisted on staying in power as a “minority government” after a meeting with the state’s ruler, Tuanku Muhriz Tuanku Munawir.
DAP Chief Anthony Loke argues that a Menteri Besar could be ousted in two ways: either the state assembly passes a motion of no confidence; or the state’s ruler consents to appoint a new chief minister whose coalition commands a majority in the house. But opposition Perikatan Nasional, which has five state assemblymen, has announced its support for Barisan Nasional.
Crucially, Negeri Sembilan UMNO declared that it had accepted the opposition’s offer of collaboration and that they now command a simple majority of 19 out of 36 state seats. Like it or not, the current Aminuddin government could collapse anytime because it has lost its majority. UMNO’s next step is to seek an audience with Tuanku Muhriz to demonstrate its majority.
Opportunist UMNO Negeri Sembilan was not against Tuanku Muhriz, but merely taking advantage of Aminuddin’s tactical mistake to grab power. As long as UMNO can ensure its support for Tuanku Muhriz in the Undang’s royal coup to seize power, the monarch does not care whether the Chief Minister is Aminuddin or Jalaluddin.
Of course, Deputy Prime Minister Zahid Hamidi, the UMNO president, claims he was not aware of the coup and told reporters that the decisions taken by the UMNO assemblymen in Negeri Sembilan “were made independently”. Hilariously, to comfort themselves, pro-Anwar propagandists bloggers, cyber troopers, YouTubers, and TikTokers immediately – and naively – defend and trumpet Zahid’s claims.
Get real, nothing as huge as a “power snatching” could go ahead without the green light from the UMNO top leadership. If you believe Zahid Hamidi was unaware of UMNO Negeri Sembilan’s coup to seize power from ally PKR, then you should also believe Muhyiddin Yassin was unaware of Bersatu Perlis’s coup to seize power from ally PAS.
Anwar blind supporters can bury their heads in the sand for all they want. They can even sing Kumbaya with UMNO and lie to themselves that UMNO did not back stab, let alone betray them in Negeri Sembilan. We already warned back in August 2024 (read here) why “UMNO Cannot Be Trusted – The Predictable Game Plan Of The Corrupt Party To Reassert Its Single-Party Dominance.”
What UMNO did in Negeri Sembilan is precisely what it had been planning after it lost power since the 2018 General Election – regain the premiership. With Anwar struggling to mitigate plunging support in preparation for the national election, which could still happen this year despite economic turmoil as a result of the Iran War, UMNO has begun to distance itself from Anwar for obvious reasons.
The attempt to overthrow Aminuddin is UMNO’s first step to test the water and to provoke PKR and DAP to declare war on UMNO. If PM Anwar has no balls to pressure Zahid to fix the problem, which was blown out of proportion, it would encourage the Malay nationalist party to proceed with its next phase – demands for the Iron Throne. UMNO could argue that PKR should support Zahid as the next PM, the same way UMNO has supported Anwar.
There’s also a possibility that the UMNO’s coup in Negeri Sembilan was a deliberate political maneuver to extract concessions from the Anwar Madani in exchange for letting Aminuddin serve his remaining term. The concessions could range from former UMNO president Najib Razak’s request for a pardon to surrendering Pakatan Harapan safe seats for UMNO-Barisan Nasional in the next election.
Tactically, the UMNO Negeri Sembilan move could be designed to torpedo Pakatan Harapan’s plan to challenge UMNO in the upcoming Melaka and Johor state elections. UMNO wanted PKR and DAP to stop asking for more seats if they wanted UMNO to leave Negeri Sembilan alone. While Barisan Nasional has a two-third majority in Melaka and Johor, Pakatan Harapan does not even have a simple majority in Negeri Sembilan.
More importantly, UMNO has also calculated that neither PKR nor DAP has the balls to retaliate by withdrawing support for the UMNO-led government in Perak and Pahang. In both states, the power-hungry opposition parties are ready to support UMNO in the event Pakatan Harapan pulls the plug. UMNO governments in Perak and Pahang wouldn’t collapse even without Pakatan Harapan’s support.
It’s not rocket science that the PAS Islamist party, having realized its past mistakes in rejecting the unity government proposal offered by the previous Agong (King) after the 15th General Election that produced a hung parliament, is more than willing to support Zahid as the 11th Prime Minister. PAS’ designated prime ministerial candidate, Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar, could become the deputy prime minister.
In addition to Samsuri, Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) could retain its current deputy prime minister portfolio in UMNO’s game plan to regain its lost premiership. In fact, UMNO is betting that the idiotic Anwar, in order to prevent him from being investigated for corruption in the corporate mafia scandal, could even agree to a demotion as deputy PM as long as PKR is part of the next government.
With UMNO-PAS-PKR (perhaps Bersatu as a mosquito partner) in the government, DAP, whose chief Anthony Loke is still having wet dreams about partnering with UMNO, would return to the opposition. This configuration would make both UMNO and PAS happy because the DAP-Chinese have been their traditional enemy anyway. If PAS betrays UMNO, Zahid could easily entice DAP to checkmate PAS.
The burning question: why is UMNO making its move now? The short answer is the Iran War. The long answer is to launch a “surprise attack” to disrupt current political and economic stability. PM Anwar is considering calling a general election by October 2026, after Budget 2027 and ahead of the 2028 deadline, to secure a fresh mandate before implementing unpopular fuel subsidy cuts.
If U.S. president Donald Trump and the Iranian regime suddenly strike a deal to end the war, it would still take at least one year for the economy to stabilize and recover, largely due to severe, long-term damage to energy infrastructure and shipping routes. But if the conflict drags on for a few months more, which is more likely the case, it would be worse for Anwar Madani.
Obviously, power-hungry UMNO is pressing all the right buttons to pressure PKR to cede power, beginning in Negeri Sembilan. With new taxes, e-invoice system, delay tax refunds, scrapping fuel subsidies, escalating cost of living, corporate mafia scandal, corruption, and cronyism already stacked against Anwar, losing Negeri Sembilan would be a slap in the face of the narcissist PM.
Unlike the pathetic DAP, who, despite possessing 40 MPs but appears powerless and weak, UMNO cannot play second fiddle. At best, UMNO would take over Negeri Sembilan but the unity government remains intact with PKR – reluctantly – playing second fiddle. At worst, the cooperation between Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Harapan ends abruptly. Either way, UMNO wins.
Grabbing Negeri Sembilan would add another trophy to UMNO’s power base in Melaka, Johor, Perak and Pahang. That would solidify and boost the party morale going into the 16th General Election. Pakatan Harapan, thanks to Anwar and Loke’s arrogance and ignorance, would be left aimlessly and lame if they lost Negeri Sembilan (which happens to be Loke’s “home ground”) – just months after they were wiped out in the Sabah state election.
Source : Finance Twitter










