Umno became fragmented after I stepped down, says Dr M

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Dr Mahathir Mohamad says Umno ‘had all the Malays’ when he was prime minister and Umno president.   Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/11/01/umno-became-fragmented-after-i-stepped-down-says-dr-m   Laporan Lanjut:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2025/11/01/umno-berpecah-selepas-saya-berundur-kata-dr-m   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com  Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5  Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM  Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h  Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp  Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX  Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb  Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj  Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Download FMT News App:  Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46  App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ  Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP   #FMTNews

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00:00Former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad says Amno became fragmented after his retirement in 2003,

00:07causing Malay political support to splinter across multiple parties.

00:11In an exclusive interview with FMT, Mahathir said that during his tenure,

00:15Amno had all the Malays, in stark contrast to the party's fragmented support today.

00:20In other words, there was already Malay unity.

00:24So the Malay unity gives them strength and they won.

00:28The election, they won the election and there is no dispute as to who is going to lead the party,

00:36who will succeed the leader if he steps down.

00:40However, Mahathir said that after he stepped down,

00:44Amno's fragmentation made it difficult to identify a single leader with full support,

00:48leading to continuous struggles for the premiership.

00:51But when I stepped down, the Amno members did not join one party.

00:57They joined many parties.

00:59So they broke themselves up into four or five parties.

01:04After I stepped down, there is always this struggle to become Prime Minister.

01:11It should be, if we follow the tradition, the Deputy Prime Minister will become the Prime Minister.

01:18But after I stepped down, everybody thinks that they can become Prime Minister.

01:25This shift, he added, forces leaders to work with multiple Malay parties to maintain support.

01:30The former leader's remarks come amid ongoing debate about the state of Malay political unity,

01:36with several splinter parties vying for influence in a landscape once dominated by Amno.

01:41Mahathir, who later led Versatu to Juang and the Garakan Tanah Ayer Coalition,

01:46recently formed a Malay secretariat committee to unite Malay interests under one big umbrella.

01:51Donny Chargeriza, FMT.

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