The growing irrelevance of Umno’s partners

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 — The MCA, MIC, Gerakan and even PPP have only themselves to blame for coming to a stage where Umno is thinking seriously of reducing their seat allocation in the next general elections.

These non-Malay political parties in the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition are growing in irrelevance among the racial constituencies they once represented.

At a retreat of Umno divisional leaders last week, a common refrain heard was that Umno should be less generous in giving up Malay-majority seats to representatives of MCA, MIC, Gerakan and other component parties. - + selanjutnya

The growing irrelevance of Umno’s partners