UMNO’s Audacious Get-Out-of-Jail Gambit

‘We can keep ruling coalition in power for favors,’ corrupt party hints

The July 30 announcement by the United Malays National Organization that it would remain outside Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin’s Perikatan Nasional alliance while continuing to support the alliance amounts to little more than a blackmail attempt to keep a half-dozen of its leaders out of jail, political sources in Kuala Lumpur say.

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