KUALA LUMPUR (July 13): DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang has questioned if UMNO president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid  Hamidi will sack Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri from UMNO if the Registrar of Societies (ROS) does not approve the UMNO constitutional amendment to further postpone UMNO  party election until after the 15GE.

In a statement on Wednesday (July 13), the MP for Iskandar Puteri said that UMNO Secretary-General Ahmad Maslan on Tuesday (July 12) said that apart from complying with the ROS and hold its internal election as required, UMNO has a ‘Plan B’ if the ROS rejects the UMNO constitutional amendment, although he declined to reveal what ‘Plan B’ is.

“I fully agree with the Johore Opposition Leader and DAP Deputy Secretary-General Liew Chin Tong that UMNO has become the source of political instability causing the nation to undergo two government changes and now it wants to destroy a third government in  four years.

“Liew said Malaysians must unite to reject the UMNO-led Barisan Nasional coalition if they want a better future,” said Lim.

The DAP elder added that he understood Liew’s disappointment that the new Umno leaders had not rejuvenated the party following its electoral defeat in 2018 but instead chose to fan hatred towards the elected Pakatan Harapan government.

“This is most obvious in the recent  faux pas  committed by the UMNO Deputy President, Mohamad Hasan, who highlighted that there is no change in the stand  by UMNO/BN on the monstrous mega multi-billion dollar 1MDB financial scandal.

“UMNO has broken into two camps – the “Courts Cluster” and the “Cabinet Cluster” but they all together in the “1MDB Cluster”,” he said.