If the grassroots agree, Najib says Umno will work with “adversaries.”

The Asian Affairs
1 min readMar 10, 2021

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Najib Razak, former Umno president, says the party should be prepared to collaborate with those it might view as “enemies” but only if they are approved by the grassroots. He said not many would have expected to join forces with Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim, contributing to the defeat of Barisan Nasional in the 2018 general election.

And Dr. Mahathir and DAP were sitting at the same table and assigning important roles to DAP (leaders)… We never thought about it all, but it happened! ,” he said in Astro Awani’s interview. “He said about making an alliance with former enemies: “In today’s sense, I say we have to look at all options, but with one condition. It must be agreed by the representatives and members of Umno. Whatever we do, the grassroots must support it.

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