PONTIAN, Jan. 3 -- Umno Supreme Council member Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan said any decision or proposal regarding the party's direction must first be endorsed through Umno's top decision-making platforms before it can be implemented.

He said this applied even to proposals put forward by Umno Youth, which must be tabled at the party's supreme council meeting and later at the general assembly this month.

"Basically any major decisions must go through the two platforms, and this includes the proposal for Umno and PAS to re-establish cooperation in the Muafakat Nasional (MN) pact," Ahmad Maslan told reporters after officiating a rural empowerment programme at the Kampung Parit Datuk Onn community hall in Api-Api here today.

"As we know, the U...