More Umno members blame Najib for BN's shock loss, survey shows

Updated 5 years ago · Published on 29 Jun 2018 2:41PM · 2 Comments

A Merdeka Centre survey shows a majority of Umno members blame former prime minister Najib Razak for losing the government. – The Malaysian Insight pic, June 29, 2018.

MORE Umno members believe Najib Razak caused them to lose the government rather than the goods and services tax (GST) issue, according to a Merdeka Centre survey. 

Two out of five Umno members polled blamed Najib but only one out of five said it was the GST. Only 8% believed that Dr Mahathir Mohamad was a factor for Barisan Nasional’s (BN) historic defeat.

The survey by Merdeka Centre for Opinion Research showed about 40% of Umno delegates and members polled believed that Najib was to blame for BN’s shocking defeat last month.

Also high up on the list of factors cited for BN’s ouster from Putrajaya were the GST issue (22%) and the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal (14%). 

The survey also showed 83% said the problem of money politics in the party should be overcome quickly.

Also high up on the list of Umno’s priorities were forging stronger ties with PAS (77%) and restructuring BN to have fairer ties with MCA and MIC (59%). 

But the majority (66%) of the respondents were against cooperating with Pakatan Harapan. 

Meanwhile, 57% said that Umno should stand alone while the party was split right down the middle on suggestions to open the party to other races. 

The survey, which was carried out from June 25-28, showed that more than half of Umno’s delegates and members felt that the party was shaky (40%) or in critical condition (18%).

And more than 83% of the respondents agreed that Umno was facing a crisis. 

Ahead of the party’s elections tomorrow, 48% the 691 respondents felt that Umno leaders need to regain voters’ trust in the party while another 45% said that the new leaders needed to have vision to rebuild the 71-year-old party.

A third of the respondents felt that the new leaders would also have to reunite the party while 27% said they needed to regain the trust of Malay voters.

The respondents consisted of 19% delegates, 69% normal members and 8% non-member supporters. – June 29, 2018.

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  • Umno Members are without doubt in the pit of darkness and clueless about an issues on their own identities. When the rampant corruptions , scandals and GST were the main contention of disputes during the couple of years prior to election, the ignorant and vain party members do not give a hoot to what was going on around them. Division leaders were dishing out goodies from their war lords to be shared among all members, Umno was in no wrong at all. They believed that they are blessed. Country was theirs, Importan Institutition was theirs to control, other races are pendatang and every right for Umno to make a mockery against the second class culture and religion, Ketuanan was for them to keep and abuse, 3 Rs of Race , Religion and Royalty are at their disposal to use to their advantages when needed in confronting opposition in their political games. All these and many more of self fullfilling make up unwritten laws of their own to be use against others in disregards to the Federal Constitution was just a time bomb to blow them apart from their own making. Hatred and disgust are too long bottled up by others waiting for opportunity to dispose them from the high pedestal. Blame not Najib as the cause eventho' he is the prime criminal in the country plundering but Umno members themselves are just the same in partake of the country ills thru' self gratification on the country wealth contributed by others. Those who chose to remain silent in voicing out the wrongs deemed themselves as holy but being the three monkeys only causes their own demise. It is far too late to blame anyone at all as it is preordained that Umno has to fall for a New Malaysia to born

    Posted 5 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • Before GE14 - many umno members shouted out loud that Najib was chosen by Allah to lead umno, BN & Malaysia. Unfortunately umno is a political party that is filled with corruption, arrogance, racist and religious bigotry.

    Posted 5 years ago by Chris Ng · Reply