00:00Veteran journalist Air Qadir Jasin has cautioned Malays against being too quick to return their support to UMNO.
00:08In a Facebook post, Qadir said voters should first ask whether the UMNO that lost the 2018 and 2022 general
00:16elections
00:16had replaced its old leadership with better people.
00:21He said Malays should not give UMNO a blank check, especially with several state elections and GE16 ahead.
00:29Qadir said UMNO's top leadership still showed signs of what he described as kleptocratic and kakistocratic rule.
00:37Kleptocracy refers to leaders abusing power to enrich themselves,
00:42while kakistocracy refers to rule by those who are incompetent or corrupt.
00:47Qadir said it did not matter whether UMNO described itself as a house, umbrella or ship for its supporters,
00:55as the real test was the quality of its leadership.
00:59He said there were some signs of hope in UMNO, but they were not yet strong enough to show a
01:04clear way forward.
01:06Qadir also quoted UMNO founder On Jafar, who once said fighting the Malayan Union was the easy part.
01:13The harder task is fighting the Malays themselves.
01:16To fight the Malays is to fight our own attitudes, habits and conduct.
01:21Roman Dawi Gapari, FMT
01:24Roman Dawi Gapari, FMT
