Umno still has mandate from Malay-Muslims, says Annuar Musa

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 1 Jun 2018 7:54PM · 4 Comments

Umno information chief Annuar Musa says the party still has the mandate from Malay-Muslims as it received 60% of their votes. He said Umno was only defeated by non-Malay votes and Malay votes that were split with PAS in GE14. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, June 1, 2018.

UMNO took 60% of the Malay-Muslim vote in GE14, claimed party information chief Annuar Musa as he sought to paint Pakatan Harapan (PH) as a “non-Malays only” coalition.

Citing “preliminary statistics” of the polls, Annuar said the results showed that Umno had the most support from Malay-Muslim voters and was the largest party in Parliament with 54 seats.

His call for members to rise and continue the party’s struggle to defend the Malays and Islam comes as party grassroots say they feel directionless and are still waiting for guidance from the leadership more than three weeks after losing federal power.

“If we look at the pattern, nearly 60% of Malay-Muslim voters gave their support to Umno. We should highlight this so that people don’t forget the support Umno has and so that they will help it rise and make a comeback,” Annuar told the party’s website, Umno Online.

Umno won 54 of BN’s 79 seats in Parliament. Pakatan Harapan won 122 out of 222 seats to form the federal government but its component parties each won less than Umno’s total.

PH secured 47.88% of the popular vote in GE14, including from seats gained through its Sabah ally, Parti Warisan Sabah.

BN’s share of the popular vote was 33.8%, while Islamist PAS, through Gagasan Sejahtera, took 17%. This puts their combined share of the popular vote at 50.8%, higher than PH’s.

Annuar said it was the non-Malays and non-Muslims who defeated Umno when the Malay vote was split between Umno and PAS.

He said this showed that PH was a political coalition that only had the mandate mainly from Chinese voters, thanks to DAP.

“Whereas Umno remains as a party that has the mandate from Malays and Muslims. Only that it did not get enough of a mandate from Chinese and non-Muslims, from component parties MCA and Gerakan.”

Annuar did not mention the fact that BN also lost unexpectedly in some Dayak seats in Sarawak, where PH increased its haul of six federal seats in 2013 to 10 in GE14.

He highlighted the fact that MCA only won one seat, MIC two and Gerakan none, adding: “Umno lost as part of BN”.

“For the first time in election history, Umno and BN only received around 2% of votes from non-Malays,” he said. – June 1, 2018.

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  • Once PH cuts off the cash - BN especially umno will definitely fall. GLC will be stopped to divert money to uno bank. Businessman will switch allegiance (Tan Sri Tony Fernandes). Once the money dries up - so-called umno members & supporters will desert umno (and some like jamal, musa has gone into hiding). Friends will dissapear into thin air (Jho Low) & Sirul). Without money - it is unlikely umno can rebuild.

    Posted 5 years ago by Chris Ng · Reply

  • RFLOL!! UMNO leaders better improve their mathematic and understand that poor Math was one of the basis of Najib's fall. If you do back of the envelop calculation, UMNO/BN have somewhere between 49%-55% of the Malay vote- assuming no voter fraud. So, yes they have the most Malay vote but they hardly have clear Malay mandate given they were incumbent

    Posted 5 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • AMusa is still in Dreamland....can someone tell this bozzo he's a loser ..... These is the problem with folks in UMNO.. still in siok sendiri land

    Posted 5 years ago by Crishan Veera · Reply

  • You know what is really scary, 27% of Malays-Muslim can completely ignore facts and truth of Hadi's PAS. Najib's biggest failure, his corruption of Hadi's PAS, successful had no impact n voters.

    Posted 5 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply