Singapore, Dec. 6 -- The wings of opposition party Umno have strongly endorsed the cooperation pact with Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) at their annual meeting yesterday, with calls for Umno and its allies to set aside the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition and "migrate" to the so-called Muafakat Nasional.
The Muafakat Nasional (national consensus), signed between Umno and Islamist party PAS in September, focuses on Malay-Muslim issues, which both parties believe have been cast aside by the governing Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition.
The two mainly Malay-Muslim parties began cooperating informally earlier this year and this helped the Umno-led BN coalition to harness Malay voters and win four by-elections against PH.
In the general election ...