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Give Umno-PAS enough rope to hang themselves!
There are two idioms that best describes the racist Umno.
They are: Give Umno enough rope to hang itself and Let the dogs bark, the wolves howl, the lightnings flash and the crows caw, you continue doing your job!
Umno and its Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, and PAS, are unlikely, God willing, to have a future in multi-religious multi-racial Malaysia.
All racists and religious fanatics are nothing but anti-nationals who threaten national harmony and unity to serve their selfish and evil political agenda.
They are unable to think Malaysian and, at the moment the minority in Malaysia.
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| This is the late PAS leader who is well respected by Malaysians. PAS leaders today are not listening to his advice. |
The racists and fanatics are no better than terrorists. They promote the politics of hate among Malaysians to serve their divide-and-rule agenda to weaken the rakyat dan negara (people and country) so as to enable them to seize power or governance.
It is for all these reasons that Malaysians muct remain wary and alert of such anti-nationals and to reject them outright.
And in the case of Umno and its BN lap dogs (MCA and MIC), the Centre for Governance and Political Studies (Cent-GPS) is spot on.
They found that the once-mighty Umno has come to depend on PAS for basic survival.
And, it will also do well for Anwar and all Malaysians to take note of a letter titled A letter to Anwar Ibrahim: What we need you to be posted by online news portal Free Malaysia Today (FMT). It had already garnered 1,800 shares at the point the posting was picked up by No News Is Bad News.
Read on for the details:
"DON’T FIGHT IT – GIVE ZAHID & HADI THE ROPE THEY NEED TO ‘HANG’ THEMSELVES: UMNO-PAS MERGER – DOOMED IF THEY DO, DOOMED IF THEY DON’T
Politics | September 16, 2018
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The study was also released today, coincidentally as the top leadership of Umno journeyed to Terengganu to pay homage to PAS at the latter’s annual Muktamar.
“These by-elections are showing us that PAS voters seem quite independent to feel the need to vote for an Umno candidate.
“Whether the Umno leaders notice this or not, their handshake with PAS may in fact spell the end of their own party’s relevance in the political landscape as we know it,” the centre said.
Based on data obtained, it found the loose collaboration between the Opposition parties to be ineffectual in regaining lost support in Sungai Kandis and Balakong, and was minimally effective in Seri Setia.
PAS yielded Sungai Kandis to Umno, which reciprocated by supporting the Islamists in Seri Setia; MCA contested in Balakong, but barely left with its deposit.
“In other words, where an Umno candidate was fielded, the PAS and Umno partnership failed to collect an improved number of votes,” Cent-GPS said.
It said this was because PAS has ingrained a natural revulsion in its support base towards Umno, which has in turn been trying to court the Islamists for years.
Cent-GPS said Umno voters were more likely to back PAS and vice-versa, rendering the quid pro quo strongly in the Islamists favour.
“After all, PAS voters have been taught to vote against Umno for decades. In contrast, as we can see in Seri Setia compared to Sungai Kandis, Umno voters are more likely to jump onto the PAS bandwagon,” it said.
The risk for Umno now was that it will be tempted to join the religious auction with PAS in order to win over the Islamist party’s traditional core of supporters.
It pointed out that the Malay-Muslim narrative appeared to work for PAS but not Umno, presumably due to Umno’s now tarnished credibility and previous political baggage.
“The once moderate Malay party and the seemingly right-wing PAS will no longer have a clear ideological distinction between them,” it said.
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It said PAS was unlikely to want to officially bring the same taint of corruption into its fold.
“It is no longer the might it once was, it is on the edge, clinging on to a former rival Islamic-Malay party that can simply chose to let Umno die its sharp death,” it added.
Cent-GPS said the three by-elections have emphatically demonstrated the deep political divisions within the Malay community, which now has five parties all vying for its support.
It said the Opposition’s only chance of challenging the ruling coalition was to rally the Malay community under a single banner, fuelling views that the next general election will be decided by the outcome of this contest for the community’s affections.
To do this, Umno is left with little choice but to strike on with PAS despite the negative outcomes derived so far.
“However, continuing the partnership with PAS is a sureway contract for the end of Umno.” – Malay Mail/Malaysia Chronicle
IN EAST MALAYSIA, UMNO & PAS ARE PERMANENTLY ‘DEAD’: FINALLY FREE FROM NAJIB’S INSULTING ‘FIXED DEPOSITS’ LABEL – ‘UMNO NOW SEEN AS DIRTY, PAS VIEWED AS EXTREMIST’ IN SABAH & SARAWAK
Politics | September 16, 2018
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Yesterday, the two parties tangoed at the PAS annual congress, but Sarawakians and Sabahans say an electoral pact in the next state election will fail because Malays here have changed their perception of Umno, the BN lynchpin party.
“To the Malays in Sarawak, the perception of Umno-BN has changed,” said political analyst Jeniri Amir from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas).
“Umno is now seen as dirty with its excesses, former party president Najib’s Razak’s alleged theft from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), and BN’s mismanagement of the government.”
While Umno has never successfully set foot in Sarawak, ruling party Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) was always seen as its proxy and was the lead party of BN in the state.
But PBB, along with other state BN components left the coalition after GE14, taking with them 19 federal state seats to form a new alliance, Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS).
Even if GPS were to change direction and side with an Umno-PAS pact in the next general election, such an alliance would never have enough parliamentary seats to reach a simple majority of 112 seats. Umno has 51 federal seats and PAS 18, making a total of 88 seats if combined with GPS.
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| The 1MDB scandal linked to former Umno president Najib Razak (centre) and the mismanagement of the past BN government is expected to put the PAS-Umno pact at a disadvantage in Sabah and Sarawak. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, September 16, 2018. |
While PAS has set up branches in Sarawak and some of its political ideology has appealed to Malays here, it is still not enough to establish a stronger foothold in the state where the majority population are indigenous bumiputera.
“PAS is viewed as extremist in their religious views. They are not in line with the thinking of moderate Sarawak Muslims. They (PAS) just don’t fit into their (Sarawak Malay Muslim) ideology,” Jeniri added.
One of the few Malay members of Sarawak DAP, Abdul Aziz Isa, said Sarawakians remain wary of any ideology that could create discord among the state’s diverse ethnic and native groups.
Aziz, who is a special representative of Sarawak PH chief Chong Chieng Jen, said an Umno-PAS collaboration would result in Malaysia having a far-right political group based on race and religion.
“This kind of political pact would also be detrimental to the Malaysian unity process and it is also not good for us as Sarawakians,” Aziz said.
Jeniri concurs, adding that an Umno-PAS alliance will only “build more walls” between Malay-Muslims, who comprise less than 27% of the state’s 2 million-plus population, and other races.
For either PAS or Umno to gain traction in Sarawak, they will have to find allies among smaller local parties but most of these have already formed alliances around the core drive for greater state autonomy in line with the Malaysia Agreement 1963.
Umno, in particular, being part of the former federal government, is not seen as one willing to return Sarawak its rights and greater ownership of its resources.
For similar reasons, Sabahans intend to reject any pact between Umno and PAS.
“PAS is viewed as extremist in their religious views. They are not in line with the thinking of moderate Sarawak Muslims. They (PAS) just don’t fit into their (Sarawak Malay Muslim) ideology,” Jeniri added.
One of the few Malay members of Sarawak DAP, Abdul Aziz Isa, said Sarawakians remain wary of any ideology that could create discord among the state’s diverse ethnic and native groups.
Aziz, who is a special representative of Sarawak PH chief Chong Chieng Jen, said an Umno-PAS collaboration would result in Malaysia having a far-right political group based on race and religion.
“This kind of political pact would also be detrimental to the Malaysian unity process and it is also not good for us as Sarawakians,” Aziz said.
Jeniri concurs, adding that an Umno-PAS alliance will only “build more walls” between Malay-Muslims, who comprise less than 27% of the state’s 2 million-plus population, and other races.
For either PAS or Umno to gain traction in Sarawak, they will have to find allies among smaller local parties but most of these have already formed alliances around the core drive for greater state autonomy in line with the Malaysia Agreement 1963.
Umno, in particular, being part of the former federal government, is not seen as one willing to return Sarawak its rights and greater ownership of its resources.
For similar reasons, Sabahans intend to reject any pact between Umno and PAS.
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| A man standing in front of two pictures of former Umno presidents in PWTC on June 25. Should Umno form a pact with PAS, they will immediately be rejected by Sabah opposition parties, which broke away from BN shortly after GE14. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, September 15, 2018. |
BN Sabah is dead following defections from its component parties and Sabah Umno has regrouped with other opposition parties to form Gabungan Bersatu Sabah (GBS) to replace BN.
Should Sabah Umno form an alliance with PAS, this will immediately be rejected by its GBS partners Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) and Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku (Solidariti), said veteran political observer Stanely Yee, who was formerly an aide to prominent Sabah politician Joseph Pairin Kitingan.
“The original plan to establish GBS came with the idea that there will be no more parties controlled by their peninsula bosses,” he said. "If Umno were to propose including PAS in GBS, there will be resentment among PBS and Solidariti members due to PAS’ interest towards implementing Islamic laws.”
Yee also said that PBS and Solidariti were not formed as race-based parties like Umno and PAS, although most of its members are made up largely by the KadazanDusun Murut (KDM) people, most of whom are Christians.
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PAS’ extremist Islamic views will not go down well with the people of Sabah and Sarawak, who have coexisted well regardless of race and religion.
Sabah Umno leaders are also nothing like those from peninsula Umno, as leaders in Sabah did not use the race card, noted political researcher Tracy Chin.
“Here, there are many inter-marriages, so families will have a mix of Christians, Buddhist, Muslims and Hindus. Racial integration here is excellent.
“We don’t classify individuals here unlike how Muslims (in the peninsula) identify those who are different, like mualaf (Muslim convert) or muhrim,” she said.
The fact that PAS had never won any seats in elections was enough show that its brand of politics had never been accepted by Sabahans, and teaming up with Umno would not help it, she added.
For Sabahan Jojo Rahman, despite being Muslim, the idea of supporting a party like PAS that allowed public shaming through punishments like caning, is unappealing.
The 40-year-old executive said he could not trust leaders to implement laws fairly, even if they were hudud laws supported by the religion.
“Even under civil law, there are poor people being jailed five years for stealing while the rich and powerful could still go free.“ If the present law is not used fairly, what makes us think hudud will be implemented fairly?” – https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/Malaysia Chronicle
A letter to Anwar Ibrahim: What we need you to be
Chan Wang Tak
September 17, 2018 10:31 AM
Dear Datuk Seri,
I am but a layman in politics and more often than not a fence-sitter. In my day, I voted for Umno, MCA, PAS or DAP candidates based on my whims and fancies and without considering the outcome. Today, I am a senior citizen. I may not have much, but what I have is enough to see me through the rest of my days. My children are adults and getting along well enough. I have not much more to look forward to other than the hope that the days ahead will be better for my children and grandchildren, and the great-grandchildren that I can only hope I will live long enough to see.
And I have hope that this nation in which I was born, that I call home and where I have lived all my life will one day see a return of the great days of harmony, when I did not refer to others by their ethnicity with terms such as “Malai chai” or “Kilinchai” as if they were aliens, and when they did not refer to me as “Cinakui” or “Cinapeie”.
I look forward to days when, as it was in the past, we will refer to others by their given names or occupations instead of their ethnicities as we so often do now. These days, instead of saying “Sulaiman the manager”, we tend to say “Malay manager Sulaiman”. Instead of saying “shop boss Sundra”, we say “that Indian boss Sundra”.
We have become openly racist, and we are so accustomed to it that we do not even feel it is wrong. It’s just culture – the Malaysian culture, the “new Malaysian” culture that has developed over the past 40 years. This new culture has damaged the nation so much that from being one of the top five Asean Tigers, we have become something like a pariah nation. Today, even a communist nation like China is way, way ahead of us.
What went wrong?
What went wrong? Well, Datuk Seri, you know better than I do. From a nation, we became nothing more than a collection of different groups of people with different skin colours who make different strange sounds called language, who happened to be thrown together on a piece of land. Some try to move ahead to gain advantage over others, either by suppressing them or getting the better of them by hook or by crook. We put people in key positions and appoint them to important jobs based on skin colour or the type of strange sounds we emit. We have prioritised this over meritocracy and the ability to perform in the interests of the entire nation so that the nation as a whole becomes great.
We know that large numbers of ex-Malaysians are contributing to the Singapore government and economy. We see Malaysians who perform excellently in overseas academic institutions who were rejected by our own academic institutions. We are also known for producing some of the top international crooks in credit card fraud, and we have produced the biggest kleptocrats in history.
We have the best talents. Our nation has produced great human beings. We have the potential to become a great nation. Whatever our skin colour, when you cut my skin open it bleeds red blood just like yours and Sundra’s. Whatever food we may eat, what comes out the other end smells just as bad. Why not allow humans to be humans? Why doesn’t our government develop and use people who are best able to make this nation grow and progress?
When will things become normal again?
If only our nation could go back to the days when Pak Mat and my father sat together in a Chinese coffee shop to chitchat. If only we could have Kassim coming over to my house to celebrate Chinese New Year again.
Before Malaysia came about, humans were humans and Malayan people were people. Twenty years after Malaysia, we began to see not humans and people, but people of different skin colours making different strange sounds.
So what do we have today? Today, Kassim who might be my neighbour on my left shows doubt on his face when I offer him a tub of home-brewed sugarcane water. His open discomfort shows that he is only politely accepting it as a gesture of friendliness and neighbourliness.
Today, Kak Suriah, who might live in the house to my right hardly even nods at me in greeting. She makes disapproving sounds when I give her little daughter a Yakult packet drink, even though it is factory-packed. Would Kak Suriah feel any better about Sundra giving her daughter a packet drink, or sharing his fish curry with her? You tell me, Datuk Seri. Better still, you tell yourself.
But would Sundra smile uncomfortably if I shared my home-brewed sugarcane water with him? No! And would I be uncomfortable enjoying the fish curry that he shares with my family? No! What is wrong, Datuk Seri, what is wrong?
When I was in Sibu, I went into a Chinese shop to look for dinner. I saw a Malay satay stall right next to a char siew rice stall. What didn’t go wrong in Sibu, Datuk Seri? When I was in Kota Kinabalu, I visited a Muslim restaurant which had a Chinese selling char kuey teow.
Today, supermarkets in the peninsula differentiate trolleys for certain food items by colour. Today, some female doctors in government service examine me by poking me with a pencil. Today, many of my new female students refuse to shake my hand, with some only using their fingernails to give my hand a quick touch. Today, to buy certain meats in the market, I have to go and look for a specially built, walled-off area. Today, when something goes wrong in a government department, we automatically attribute it to the cultural or genetic nature of an ethnic group. Why?
Bapa Perpaduan
Dear Datuk Seri, Tunku Abdul Rahman is known as Bapa Kemerdekaan and Bapa Malaysia. He built a Malaysia where we could play games together, eat together and talk together without being sensitive and stressed out. But he left behind a Malaysia which others destroyed, making it into a nation of different skin colours. We broke up as a nation. We began to question each other’s patriotism based on skin colour. We tried to wipe out our history even by changing the names of places.
Dr Mahathir Mohamad is recognised as Bapa Pembangunan Malaysia. He did much to make Malaysia known as a country we could be proud of in terms of buildings and facilities. But even then, what he built was destroyed by his successor. His successor gave Malaysia the infamous reputation as a country of kleptocracy and a land full of racial, religious sensitivities.
I do not pretend to be able to advise you. You are greater than I am in most ways. I do not even pretend that I can influence your thoughts. You see things differently because you have access to information that I do not, and you are driven by a personal agenda of which I do not know. I can only hope, and express to you my hope for my children and grandchildren, that this nation will become great again.
This nation needs a Bapa Perpaduan Malaysia. It needs someone who can remove the sensitivities that have divided the people, causing us to pull each other down or suppress others. This nation needs a Bapa Perpaduan who can lead all of us to respect and accept – not simply tolerate – each other’s differences; to live and work together for the best interests of our descendants and the nation. This nation needs you to do that. You can be the Bapa Perpaduan that we yearn for; the Bapa Perpaduan who helps us visit each other’s places of worship freely, who gives us the right to worship in our own ways as long as we do not intrude, interfere or impose our values onto others. We need you to do that.
I also know I can only hope that you care for your health in the same way as Mahathir has done, so that you have as much time as he has had to repair the damage to this nation.
In many ways, you contributed to this damage too in your time. Mahathir is doing his part now to repair as much as possible of the damage he did. You will have your chance too, if you want to or if you see the need to.
My best hope for my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren is that they will have a Bapa Perpaduan Malaysia to look up to and be grateful for.
Chan Wang Tak is an FMT reader.
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of FMT."
I am but a layman in politics and more often than not a fence-sitter. In my day, I voted for Umno, MCA, PAS or DAP candidates based on my whims and fancies and without considering the outcome. Today, I am a senior citizen. I may not have much, but what I have is enough to see me through the rest of my days. My children are adults and getting along well enough. I have not much more to look forward to other than the hope that the days ahead will be better for my children and grandchildren, and the great-grandchildren that I can only hope I will live long enough to see.
And I have hope that this nation in which I was born, that I call home and where I have lived all my life will one day see a return of the great days of harmony, when I did not refer to others by their ethnicity with terms such as “Malai chai” or “Kilinchai” as if they were aliens, and when they did not refer to me as “Cinakui” or “Cinapeie”.
I look forward to days when, as it was in the past, we will refer to others by their given names or occupations instead of their ethnicities as we so often do now. These days, instead of saying “Sulaiman the manager”, we tend to say “Malay manager Sulaiman”. Instead of saying “shop boss Sundra”, we say “that Indian boss Sundra”.
We have become openly racist, and we are so accustomed to it that we do not even feel it is wrong. It’s just culture – the Malaysian culture, the “new Malaysian” culture that has developed over the past 40 years. This new culture has damaged the nation so much that from being one of the top five Asean Tigers, we have become something like a pariah nation. Today, even a communist nation like China is way, way ahead of us.
What went wrong?
What went wrong? Well, Datuk Seri, you know better than I do. From a nation, we became nothing more than a collection of different groups of people with different skin colours who make different strange sounds called language, who happened to be thrown together on a piece of land. Some try to move ahead to gain advantage over others, either by suppressing them or getting the better of them by hook or by crook. We put people in key positions and appoint them to important jobs based on skin colour or the type of strange sounds we emit. We have prioritised this over meritocracy and the ability to perform in the interests of the entire nation so that the nation as a whole becomes great.
We know that large numbers of ex-Malaysians are contributing to the Singapore government and economy. We see Malaysians who perform excellently in overseas academic institutions who were rejected by our own academic institutions. We are also known for producing some of the top international crooks in credit card fraud, and we have produced the biggest kleptocrats in history.
We have the best talents. Our nation has produced great human beings. We have the potential to become a great nation. Whatever our skin colour, when you cut my skin open it bleeds red blood just like yours and Sundra’s. Whatever food we may eat, what comes out the other end smells just as bad. Why not allow humans to be humans? Why doesn’t our government develop and use people who are best able to make this nation grow and progress?
When will things become normal again?
If only our nation could go back to the days when Pak Mat and my father sat together in a Chinese coffee shop to chitchat. If only we could have Kassim coming over to my house to celebrate Chinese New Year again.
Before Malaysia came about, humans were humans and Malayan people were people. Twenty years after Malaysia, we began to see not humans and people, but people of different skin colours making different strange sounds.
So what do we have today? Today, Kassim who might be my neighbour on my left shows doubt on his face when I offer him a tub of home-brewed sugarcane water. His open discomfort shows that he is only politely accepting it as a gesture of friendliness and neighbourliness.
Today, Kak Suriah, who might live in the house to my right hardly even nods at me in greeting. She makes disapproving sounds when I give her little daughter a Yakult packet drink, even though it is factory-packed. Would Kak Suriah feel any better about Sundra giving her daughter a packet drink, or sharing his fish curry with her? You tell me, Datuk Seri. Better still, you tell yourself.
But would Sundra smile uncomfortably if I shared my home-brewed sugarcane water with him? No! And would I be uncomfortable enjoying the fish curry that he shares with my family? No! What is wrong, Datuk Seri, what is wrong?
When I was in Sibu, I went into a Chinese shop to look for dinner. I saw a Malay satay stall right next to a char siew rice stall. What didn’t go wrong in Sibu, Datuk Seri? When I was in Kota Kinabalu, I visited a Muslim restaurant which had a Chinese selling char kuey teow.
Today, supermarkets in the peninsula differentiate trolleys for certain food items by colour. Today, some female doctors in government service examine me by poking me with a pencil. Today, many of my new female students refuse to shake my hand, with some only using their fingernails to give my hand a quick touch. Today, to buy certain meats in the market, I have to go and look for a specially built, walled-off area. Today, when something goes wrong in a government department, we automatically attribute it to the cultural or genetic nature of an ethnic group. Why?
Bapa Perpaduan
Dear Datuk Seri, Tunku Abdul Rahman is known as Bapa Kemerdekaan and Bapa Malaysia. He built a Malaysia where we could play games together, eat together and talk together without being sensitive and stressed out. But he left behind a Malaysia which others destroyed, making it into a nation of different skin colours. We broke up as a nation. We began to question each other’s patriotism based on skin colour. We tried to wipe out our history even by changing the names of places.
Dr Mahathir Mohamad is recognised as Bapa Pembangunan Malaysia. He did much to make Malaysia known as a country we could be proud of in terms of buildings and facilities. But even then, what he built was destroyed by his successor. His successor gave Malaysia the infamous reputation as a country of kleptocracy and a land full of racial, religious sensitivities.
I do not pretend to be able to advise you. You are greater than I am in most ways. I do not even pretend that I can influence your thoughts. You see things differently because you have access to information that I do not, and you are driven by a personal agenda of which I do not know. I can only hope, and express to you my hope for my children and grandchildren, that this nation will become great again.
This nation needs a Bapa Perpaduan Malaysia. It needs someone who can remove the sensitivities that have divided the people, causing us to pull each other down or suppress others. This nation needs a Bapa Perpaduan who can lead all of us to respect and accept – not simply tolerate – each other’s differences; to live and work together for the best interests of our descendants and the nation. This nation needs you to do that. You can be the Bapa Perpaduan that we yearn for; the Bapa Perpaduan who helps us visit each other’s places of worship freely, who gives us the right to worship in our own ways as long as we do not intrude, interfere or impose our values onto others. We need you to do that.
I also know I can only hope that you care for your health in the same way as Mahathir has done, so that you have as much time as he has had to repair the damage to this nation.
In many ways, you contributed to this damage too in your time. Mahathir is doing his part now to repair as much as possible of the damage he did. You will have your chance too, if you want to or if you see the need to.
My best hope for my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren is that they will have a Bapa Perpaduan Malaysia to look up to and be grateful for.
Chan Wang Tak is an FMT reader.
The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of FMT."
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| Malay Mail Umno logo at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) during the Umno general assembly last year. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says Umno and PAS are now allies. Published Umno-PAS partnership now out in the open, says Mahathir 07 SEPTEMBER, 2018 UPDATED 07 SEPTEMBER, 2018 PETALING JAYA— The United Malays National Organisation (Umno) and Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) are no longer having a covert partnership behind closed doors, but are now openly allies after coming out of the “room”, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Friday (Sept 7). Tun Dr Mahathir said the partnership of the former two political foes has become a “reality”, describing it as something which they had previously try to keep hidden … https://www.todayonline.com/world/umno-pas-partnership-now-out-open-says-mahathir |
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