Malays already regretting voting against Umno, says Malay daily

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 10 Jun 2018 11:10AM · 38 Comments

THE anger that the Malays feel for Umno is a passing emotion, and those who voted against the party in the general election are beginning to feel the loss of the party, said Utusan Malaysia, a Malay daily owned by Umno.

Awang Selamat in an editorial column in Mingguan Malaysia wrote that “recent issues” affecting Muslims and Malays have led many Malays to regret the lack of a strong party to defend their causes.

“With all the recent issues which have affected the Muslims and Malays, the need for Umno and PAS to be a source of support is increasing.

“The loss of power by Umno is now felt and regretted by many Malays,” wrote Awang.

The editorial did not state which issues it was referring to.

Utusan had recently come under fire for carrying articles deemed to be inciting racial and religious discord in its coverage of the recent impasse over the appointment of new Attorney-General Tommy Thomas.

In response, the paper’s editor Zulkiflee Bakar had said Utusan will continue to voice out against issues perceived to be a threat to Malays and Muslims.

The paper had slammed the selection of Thomas, who is non-Malay and a Catholic, by prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and had warned that the new A-G’s appointment would erode the rights of Malays and Muslims.

After an almost-three-week impasse with the royalty, the palace finally issued a statement appointing Thomas as A-G on June 5.

In today’s weekend analysis, Awang likened the shift of Malay votes from Barisan Nasional to Pakatan Harapan in GE14 to “tempers and tantrums” which would soon pass.

He wrote that with the election of a new president at the coming Umno polls, the party will be well-placed to regain victory in the 15th general election.

“What’s important, in Awang’s opinion, is that the party must show the sincerity to change because the rejection of Umno is not permanent. The anger and tantrums of the Malays towards Umno won’t last long,” said Awang.

He cited a report by The Malaysian Insight stating that Pakatan Harapan was enjoying a “honeymoon” period as Umno has not shown signs of becoming a worthy opposition, due to its lack of leadership.

“Awang agrees, Umno only lost the GE14 but has not lost everything. BN, which is led by Umno, still has 79 parliamentary seats.

“Umno itself holds 54 seats, the highest compared with other parties including PKR, DAP and PPBM (Bersatu).” – June 10, 2018.

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  • The way I see it: More Malays are regreting they didn't vote for PH in Terengganu, Kelatan and Kedah. Eat your heart out Utusan.

    Posted 5 years ago by Awang Top · Reply

  • utusan should be banned for fake mews

    Posted 5 years ago by Kuey sengchoon · Reply

  • Awang Selamat and Utusan Malaysia will be extinct very soon without Government handout. So ignore that goon who will be jobless soon

    Posted 5 years ago by New Malaysia · Reply

  • Who is Awang Selamat??? This is a hantu stirring shit - a bogey man hiding in the shadow of umno.

    Posted 5 years ago by Chris Ng · Reply

  • Utusan is one of the causes for Umno downfall. It is a propaganda tool of Umno n nothing else. It doesn't contribute to the good of the society except to divide the society. They don't have news to report except being a mouth piece of Umno. Racists n sowing discord among the races n religion. May Utusan continue to lose readership till it go completely bankrupt n dead n buried forever

    Posted 5 years ago by Peace Maker · Reply

  • Believe your make believe narrative Utusan. You know the truth but yet you choose to be delusional. Malays have been abandoning UMNO in droves for the past 20 years. And the continue to do so. The young Malays couldn't care less about UMNO. Even some UMNO leaders are not even sure whether UMNO can survive the next 5 years, let alone wresting the country from Pakatan Harapan.

    The people voted for Pakatan and we want Pakatan to succeed. All they have demonstrated so far is unrelenting willingness for good governance. The good governance that UMNO/BN will never ever be able to provide

    Posted 5 years ago by NA Bayezid · Reply

  • The Malays are a lot smarter than Utusan thinks.

    Posted 5 years ago by PRADEEP Balakrishnan · Reply

  • BILA DI AMBANG KUASA
    BN juga tak jangka mereka akan kalah..
    Sekarang PH pun tak jangka akan kalah PRU akan datang. Teruskan tekanan pada agama, bangsa dan istana.....

    Posted 5 years ago by Muhamad Nasarudin · Reply

  • I am a malay. I was a very active umno member previously like 20 years ago. Awang selamat has always been like this. I encourage everyone here to make a police report against him as he is trying to break the harmony in this country by his writing. Forgetting that he has to answer for his deeds 6 feet under when we all die. I will be a witness against him then. He and and all in utusan will be in my weekly prayers to the almight in the fight of good against evil. Allah swt is listening and people in utusan should start tremble in fear of Allah swt retaliation against those who spread unfounded fear against his servants.

    Posted 5 years ago by Amir-Zaki Ishak · Reply

    • Old habits die hard.

      Posted 5 years ago by Henry Mancini Jr · Reply

  • Sabah is under Warisan rule. For sure umno cannot get back the support of Sabahans anymore. PBB of Sarawak has pulled out from bn. Without the support of the two states umno cannot gain power. It can form an alliance with pas but pas can only win two states which is insufficient. PH is already making it's move to built up it's base in Terengganu and Kelantan. This will chip away some of pas support. So don't dream of making a come back in next election unless PH makes some major blunders in administering the country.

    Posted 5 years ago by Saham san · Reply

  • The country will be destroyed if race and religions are used to divide the people. Let this be a warning to Utusan and other bigots. There must be strict laws on this.

    There must be strict laws to curb the use of religion in politics. Those exploiting religion and race to cause disturbances must be hauled and punished.

    No political parties must be allowed to use religion as it's thrust. This can be dangerous. These parties must be banned.

    Malaysia must look forward to progress as Malaysians. No race and religion issues should be used to cause a rift among races.

    Live and let live. PH must take the lead.

    Posted 5 years ago by Ken destino · Reply

  • Bullshit. Malays are sensible and wise. They know umno has been stripping n plundering country's wealth. The malay is wise n know this need to stop before the country is destroyed. Utusan is making a fool of malays

    Posted 5 years ago by Darth Vadar · Reply

  • Goes to show Awang Selamat do not know much of anything.. ITS IRRELEVANT THEY REGRET OF NOT. ITS DONE AND THERE IS NO GOING BACK THE WAY THEY CAME. Period. There is no going back. The hypocrite monopoly of of "bangsa, agama, negara" is over. There will he MANY who will claim the prize they want to reclaim. It just will never be theirs only ever again and without that monopoly, its just never going to be enough to go back.

    Posted 5 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • Responsible and intelligent journalism would educate and imbibe multiracial orientation instead of schizophrenic notion of Malaysians are the threat to Malaysians.

    Posted 5 years ago by Kukananthan Gnanamoorthy · Reply

  • Awang Selamat will be out of job soon. Utusan is going bankrupt. No financial support from UMNO. The Editorial Group is stinking

    Posted 5 years ago by Peter Johnson · Reply

  • With all due respect , guess Awang Selamat an
    Utusan should keep their mouth shut. They should live in reality not alter nonsense trying their luck to stir racial harmoni in Malaysia. Guess Malaysian in whole no longer stupid we are now standing up for our right. We presumed now they are clapping their hand to see domino effect on those corrupted ex officials been investigate and will see one by one going down.










    Posted 5 years ago by Abdul Rahman Abdul Razak · Reply

  • Oyy bodoh ASs, kan muka bahlul lu mcm otak engkau. Dulu dumno kat lebih 200 kerusi skrg hanya 54, bergaya sangat lu.

    Otak sama dgn pemimpin2 kleptokrat.
    Bukan Umno yg kalah malah orang2 dlm umno yg menjadi tamak berganda serta keinginab nak songlap duit rakyat dan menjadikan negara yg disayangi melanda laknat. Keluarkan semua bangsat itu dari umno baru u bolih cakap. Puiiiii

    Posted 5 years ago by AkuRakyatMalaysia Selangor · Reply

  • Alhamduillah we are not as Stupid or Dumb as this media thinks. My villages are regretting they did vote for PH. Next state election in Sarawak it will be a PH tsunami.

    Posted 5 years ago by Putang Inang · Reply

    • I am with you bro. Lets reject PBB and ABG JO and component parties in 2021!

      Posted 5 years ago by Chee H · Reply

  • I am a Malay with 2 spoons of Bugis blood inside me and I have NO REGRET WHATSOEVER voting for PH and Tun Mahathir Team.. Awang and Utusan, what a JOKER

    Posted 5 years ago by Ridz Abdul · Reply

  • I am a malay and have no regret throwing Kleptocrats out of country leadership

    Posted 5 years ago by Ridz Abdul · Reply

  • Our country has been led along the path of divisiveness for decades using ethno- racial politics. The new Malaysia now has a chance to change this around. We can be a model to the World. When will Umno change and when will Utusan contribute towards a better Malaysia?

    Posted 5 years ago by Zonefinder virgo · Reply

  • Utusan's "successful propaganda" was the chief reason for UMNO's complacency and loss during GE14. They never ever saw the Malaysian Tsunami coming and right now, these people are still living in denial.

    Posted 5 years ago by Roger 5201 · Reply

  • Malays regret not voting Umno out sooner..

    Posted 5 years ago by Locks seven · Reply

  • Sorry Utusan you've got it wrong. Never heard of any Malays regretting it and what ever you think Umno will never get off the ground again.

    Posted 5 years ago by Zainal Othman · Reply

  • UMNO continues to delude itself into thinking it has phantom votes. Actually with the redelination exercise BN could have won with just 16.5% of the popular vote, studies showed. Well BN lost despite political machinations. This shows rejection of UMNO and Bn is extremely high, possibly into the 90+%. Well UMNO can continue to live in its own bubble while the rakyat and nation move on. There are other more pressing national issues to attend to than entertaining reports like these.

    Posted 5 years ago by Chee H · Reply

  • Utusan is nothing more than a propaganda machine of UMNO. Publishing news is just a diversion.

    Posted 5 years ago by Henry Mancini Jr · Reply

  • It takes two fools to come out with a fool story !
    No document no findings nor survey more of fools talk fools syiok sendiri and come up with something to report for the sake of report something anything ?

    Posted 5 years ago by Jack Ace · Reply

  • Any survey done to support your claim? It is the likes of people like you spreading fake good news that all is kosher with the malays, Najib was able to lose Putrajaya. Najib was too startled how things could have gone so wrong with his sycophants feeding him with fake good news. On the contrary, malays are now thinking why they did not dump UMNO earlier with all the good things PH had done for the ordinary malays in just 30 days.

    Posted 5 years ago by Ez 24get · Reply

  • Now that UMNO has been exposed to be nothing more than looters and plunderers, why would anyone regret having booted them out? Isn't a one trillion dollar debt bad enough? Want to see that go to two or three trillion?

    Posted 5 years ago by Bob Lee · Reply

  • Awang Selamat Tak Selamat




































    - June 11, 2018

    Yesterday , Awang Selamat made a claim that the malays are already regretting voting for PH in the last GE. He babbled about some issues that had cropped up since PH won the GE although he didn't manage to elaborate on what specific issues was he basing his column on.

    I would guess he must've of meant the appointing of Tommy Thomas as the new AG or the revelation of Saudara Kadir Jasin as to the expenses the Government and by extension the rakyat had to bear for the upkeep of the multitude of Royalties in Malaysia as well as The Agong which Awang perceives as the erosion of malay dominance by the new administration.

    I guess when looked upon strictly from a race perspective and in a feudalistic narrow mindset that would be valid arguments. But we all (right thinking malay) knows that Awang is just doing the only thing he knows best and that is to spew such drivel to stir the racial pot of the malays to be emotional and lash out at the new guys in Putrajaya.

    Expect some obscure NGO's to gather a few 'members' and make a police report somewhere and make some noises somewhere to entertain us all as is the usual script. What Awang fails to see or chooses to ignore is the undeniable shift of the malays themselves and the pure disgust and hate they hold against his masters in UMNO.

    This despite the fact that Utusan Melayu is collapsing because of this very fact and the laying off they will be conducting (all of them malays by the way)...is of no consequence because Utusan for so long has not been a news organization! Instead they have become accustomed to be nothing more than a propaganda machine for UMNO whom while still in power could afford to keep them afloat.

    Now that the landscape has shifted the dungu's at Utusan are still clueless as to what constitutes an actual news organization. They,along with Awang shall die a death by a thousand cuts if they keep using this outdated M.O and I hope that they do for the sake of melayu!

    Our bangsa are not and will never be served or uplifted by this vile piece of thrash that forever will let us think that we are not good enough to stand on our two feet! They want and need us to believe that it will always be US against THEM in a non ending cycle of stupidity!

    Posted 5 years ago by Johan Iskandar · Reply

  • The gomen departments are regretting buying UTUSAN sheets.... soon Awang akan selamat dikebumikan....
    Al Fatihah....

    Posted 5 years ago by Ramamurthi ram · Reply

  • Without ketuanan's malangyu support,just how long can utusan meloya can survive?

    Posted 5 years ago by Leslie Chan · Reply

  • The BIGGEST lie on earth !

    Posted 5 years ago by Zureen ariff · Reply

  • I saw many Malays are regretting for voting PH. What is going to be happened now? PH wants to abolish JAKIM and reduce the special rights of Malays and Muslims, OMG it's a very very dangerous sign for Bumiputeras in Malaysia.

    Posted 5 years ago by Imran Syarafuddin · Reply

  • I don't recognise Mahathir as the PM of Malaysia. He betrayed Malays and Muslims. Those who have voted for PH need to regret at their behaviours.

    Posted 5 years ago by Imran Syarafuddin · Reply

  • Today's "political-science" students must study racism with highlights on UMNO's ingredients. Traditionally, the ancient Jewish politics of racism which have been maintained in their monotheistic God's religious teachings were the ingredients used as study materials for successful manipulation of "dirty" politics in God's name.

    Posted 5 years ago by Wit Ness · Reply