ANNUAR Musa said Umno has made a decision on the party’s position on working with Bersatu and wants Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to make it public.

In a Facebook post today, he claimed the Umno president had conveyed the decision made at its Supreme Council meeting on February 19 in a letter to Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin on February 26.

The Federal Territories minister said the letter had declared that Umno would not cooperate with Bersatu in the next general election and it will only work with the Perikatan Nasional government until Parliament is dissolved.

“I was made to understand on February 26, the Umno president had written a letter to the Bersatu president to convey the Supreme Council decision at its meeting on February 19 in Janda Baik that there will be no cooperation with Bersatu in the 15th general election.

“(The council also decided) Umno will only work with the government until Parliament is dissolved,” he wrote in the post.

Annuar asked why party members have not been informed on the matter, if the letter had been sent to Bersatu to convey the decision.

“As members we have the right to know if the news is true. If it’s true why have members not been told?

“Members have to know if the decision was made by the council. Members have to know its rationale as we don’t know when the next general election will be held,” he said in the post.

Muhyiddin this week reiterated his position that Parliament will be dissolved as soon as the emergency, slated to end on August 1, is lifted.

Annuar said there was no need to hide the decision from the party’s grassroots, who have long been in the dark over the party’s future direction.

Annuar said he found it baffling the council had made the decision not to work with Bersatu, having earlier said it will be decided by the party’s delegates at the annual general assembly.

“Why make the decision before the assembly?” he asked.

The party’s Supreme Council had on January 6 said its annual general assembly will decide on whether to continue working with Bersatu.

The assembly, slated for the end of January, is now set for March 27 and 28, after being cancelled twice as a result of movement-order restrictions. – March 3, 2021.