SERDANG – Umno will conduct a post-mortem to identify the weaknesses that contributed to it losing most of the seats it contested in during last weekend’s six state elections, according to party vice-president Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin.
Commenting on calls for Umono president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to step down following the party’s poor showing in the elections, Mohamed Khaled, who is also the minister of higher education, said there were many factors that could have influenced the election results.
“Let things settle (first), we will conduct a post-mortem and find our weaknesses,” he said, adding that calls for Ahmad Zahid to step down were only a short-term measure and an excuse for the party’s defeats.
Umno, which represents Barisan Nasional (BN), won only 19 out of the 108 seats it contested in the six state polls. BN won 14 seats in Negri Sembilan, two each in Selangor and Penang, one in Kelantan, but failed to win any in Kedah and Terengganu.
“Perhaps, for Umno voters, this is the first time they are working as a team while previously they used to fight against one another. This will all take time and only time will tell,” Mohamed Khaled told reporters after the launch of the 2023 National Food Security Conference today. – August 15, 2023