Ever since Dr. Mahathir Mohamad got the fright of his life when Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah came within a whisker of defeating him in the 1987 Umno elections, Umno has devised a system of electoral nominations within the party that can only be politely described as “innovative” since it is designed exclusively to benefit the Umno President and those whom he favours. This article, written in 2004 by Abang Benet, is just as relevant today as it was then.
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