Pakatan will implode and Umno will return soon, says Zahid

Chan Kok Leong Chan Kok Leong Updated 7 years ago · Published on 25 Jun 2018 7:40PM · 11 Comments

Acting Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says the Pakatan Harapan still has the opposition mindset. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, June 25, 2018.

AHMAD Zahid Hamidi is confident Umno will return to Putrajaya soon and without the hassle of having to go through a general election.

The acting Umno president said the Pakatan Harapan government was unstable and will collapse in the near future.

“We know that they (PH) are shaky everywhere. We have the most number of MPs. Elect me and I will know what to do,” Zahid told Umno Federal Territory delegates during a closed-door briefing at the Putra World Trade Centre today.

Umno currently has 53 seats in parliament.

The former deputy prime minister’s speech to the delegates were also carried on speakers in the hall outside the room.

During the meeting, Zahid said he had friendly ties with almost everyone.

“I’m good with the one who just got out,” he said, in an apparent reference to PKR de factor leader Anwar Ibrahim, who was released from jail last month. 

“I have good ties with the ones in Sabah and Sarawak and even with the one formerly from Penang. Only with those from Amanah, I’m less friendly with,” he said.

Zahid had previously said that the Sarawak BN parties had left the BN coalition with his blessing and that they will all work together one day.

He also has a good relationship with Parti Warisan Sabah’s Shafie Apdal.

Zahid said that, based on the six weeks PH has held federal power, it did not appear to be able to govern the country well, citing its recent “proposal” to ban foreigners from working in restaurants.

“It still has the opposition mindset,” he said.

Zahid is one of five candidates vying for the president’s post in Umno’s party polls. His main rivals are veteran politician Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and former Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin. 

More than 100,000 delegates will vote simultaneously for the main office bearers and supreme council members this Saturday. – June 25, 2018.

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  • Federal Pakatan will not implode because for every party in it even if they hate each other, the alternative is to work with UMNO which they will be treated with contempt. The only way Pakatan can implode if they are dependent on Sarawak and Sabah and those guys would throw their mothers under the bus to get a bit more. So long as each party in Pakatan got their own MPs under control, it will stay together. Zahid Hamdid is a real fighter BUT he is no visionary leader, in fact he cannot see any real vision for anyone.

    Posted 7 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • It is too early to dream.

    Posted 7 years ago by Henry Mancini Jr · Reply

  • Zahid is still hopeful that he can return to Putrajaya. I think he is the one that still has the ruling party mindset.

    Posted 7 years ago by Ali Salleh · Reply

  • Tipu Negara dan mendapat Warga Negara .......masih cakap besar ...tak malu...Ponroko

    Posted 7 years ago by Mohanarajan murugeson · Reply

  • Habitual liar

    Posted 7 years ago by Tanahair Ku · Reply

  • Zahid, you are living in denial. Umno n BN fall was not overnight. It was through years of continually pillaging the country, the blatant corruption, the arrogance, the playing up of religious n racist card for own political mileage, etc.. all these stinks. You have been doing all these through the years, n you expect to come back into power the next GE? Reform n change Umno first.

    Posted 7 years ago by Peace Maker · Reply

  • Sure Pakatan has some issues going on but last I check, all 4 component parties are still intact
    Yours however went from 14 to 3 within a month
    Tell me again who's imploding?

    Posted 7 years ago by Mohd Zakwan bin Zainal Abidin · Reply

  • Dia ni sudah tak ada credibility macam Najib. Lost touch dgn rakyat Malaysia

    Posted 7 years ago by John Nabu · Reply

  • Is he thinking and talking about overthrowing the government by undemocratic means? Or by the use of the colossal amount of money misappropriated from the 1MDB fund and still at the disposal of certain UMNO leader(s) or ex-leader(s) which was misappropriated from the 1MDB fund? Or may be he was just talking big to get the votes? I think he would not even secure the UMNO Presidency because even UMNO members would be disgusted with him over the boasting for whatever reason he fancied himself with.

    Posted 7 years ago by Makhtar Mansor · Reply

  • hello, dont forget Umno is an illegal party right now. Ros can deregister it anytime so don't be so cocky.

    Posted 7 years ago by Johnnie lim · Reply

  • Zahid, I am not sure how you will achieve this from jail. I am lead to believe they have now a special wing just for UMNO members.

    Posted 7 years ago by Richard Chapbell · Reply