Dr M says Umno must befriend Perkasa to regain Malay votes

Dr Mahathir is enthusiast to Perkasa. File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov twenty Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has pronounced Umno cannot means to have enemies with Malay rights groups such as Perkasa if it is to recover a crucial Malay opinion in a ubiquitous choosing expected soon.

The former budding minister pronounced in an talk published by Utusan Malaysia currently which a Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) had suffered landmark losses in Election 2008 because Malays did not await BN.

If only Chinese support, it will not be enough. In most areas where Chinese are split, Malays will confirm who wins, Dr Mahathir was quoted as observant in a newspapers Sunday edition, Mingguan Malaysia.

The former Umno president, who is still rarely influential in Umno, pronounced most Malay non-governmental organisations longed for to await a party but were forced to take up issues which were not championed by a comparison partner in a ruling coalition.

Umno cannot means to view Perkasa as a enemy. We cannot means to have most enemies at this point, Dr Mahathir, who is additionally Perkasas patron, said.

He additionally pronounced Umno had a problem attracting Malays as high-calibre members of a village are not accepted in Umno, so they stick on PAS.

Umno goes into what is likely to be its last ubiquitous assembly prior to a ubiquitous choosing expected early next year.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is pronounced to need a marked alleviation from a last polls to keep his in front of and only a lapse of BNs prevalent two-thirds majority of Parliament can pledge he stays in office.

BN ceded 82 federal seats and 5 state governments to a antithesis in a landmark March 2008 election.