ZAID Ibrahim has rejoined Umno and says he wants to reform the party from within, The Star reported.  

The senior lawyer submitted his application on August 27 at the World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur. 

“I wish to see Umno more reform-minded and more open to renewal—where to do it, it must be from ‘within’,” he was quoted as saying by the news portal.

Zaid also stated that his friends said it was difficult to make changes within Umno if it came from the “outside”. 

“Finally, I feel that it is better for me to be with Umno even though the reform might take a long time. 

Zaid first joined Umno in 2000 under whose ticket he contested and won the Kota Baru parliamentary seat during the 2004 general election. 

He later resigned from the cabinet of former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in 2008 to protest against the Internal Security Act arrests.  

This was followed by his joining PKR the following year, before resigning in 2012 amid party infighting. 

Zaid then formed Parti Kesejahteraan Insan Tanah Air (Kita) in 2010 but resigned as its chief in 2012. 

After Kita, he joined DAP in 2017 but that only lasted for about three years, and he left the party in 2020. 

In July, Zaid was appointed by former prime minister Najib Razak to represent him at his Federal Court appeal in the SRC International Sdn Bhd case.  

However, Zaid’s law firm was sacked by the latter, merely days before the ex-PM was jailed. – September 16, 2022.