Reforms in UMNO?

[...] He wanted to "right the wrongs of UMNO." There are many, of course. A major problem is in contesting for positions in the party and the way party polls have been run. To party veterans, party polls "used to be OK in the old days." Until Dr Mahathir changed it all. Tun Dr (then Datuk Seri) put in place certain "terms and conditions" surrounding party elections after his bitter battle and close victory over Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah for the presidency in 1987.

He had his reasons of course. Rightly or wrongly. When Abdullah Ahmad Badawi became UMNO president the "terms and conditions' were still there. Perhaps one of the reason for Pak Lah being blamed for the ills of UMNO was that he did not do anything to rectify the "terms and conditions" of the party polls. In short, he let it be. But then, many if not all UMNO leaders including the current crop had benefited from the "terms and conditions" they are now opposing and seek to change.

One of the main complaint or grouse was the quota system for nomination of candidates vying for posts especially top positions in the party. (It started with bonus points for the post of president and deputy president and later fine tuned to be the quota system).- + selanjutnya

Reforms in UMNO?