Malays became divided under my successors, says Dr M

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Dr Mahathir Mohamad says incompetent leadership following his resignation as prime minister and Umno president in 2003 resulted in division among the Malays.  Read More:   Laporan Lanjut:   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 #DrMahathir #MalayCommunity

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00:00When Abdullah took over, at first people thought that he was a very good leader and they gave

00:08him full support. Between 2004 and 2008, it was shown that he was not capable.

00:19Long-serving former Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad has attributed the deep divisions

00:24within the Malay community to his successor's incompetence, saying its fragmentation began

00:30after he resigned from office in 2003. Mahathir said the Malay community was largely

00:36united under UMNO during his first spell as Prime Minister, which lasted 22 years.

00:43Although Abdullah, who was Prime Minister from 2003 to 2009, led Barisan Nasional to

00:48a historic landslide victory in 2004, Mahathir said the coalition lost its two-thirds majority

00:55in the Dewan Rakyat for the first time since 1969, a mere four years later.

01:02Under Abdullah's leadership, BN also lost control of five states in the 2008 general

01:07election – Penang, Kedah, Selangor, Perak and Kelantan.

01:13That was the beginning of the split in UMNO. UMNO became very weak and people were not

01:22supporting UMNO anymore. Mahathir claimed that things worsened under

01:26Najib Razak, who succeeded Abdullah as Prime Minister, with the 1MDB scandal pushing more

01:32Malays away from UMNO. The scandal led to widespread outrage and

01:37was a significant factor in BN's loss in the 2018 general election, where they were

01:42defeated by Pakatan Harapan, marking the first change of government in the country's

01:46history. Mahathir also lamented that the fragmentation

01:50of Malay political power has weakened their ability to secure a majority in general elections.

01:57At one time, the Malays were united in UMNO. All Malays are in UMNO, including the religious

02:06people, English-educated, Malay-educated, all were in UMNO. But those who left UMNO,

02:14they started forming a lot of political parties. So the Malays are now split into four or five

02:23political parties.

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