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3rd December, 2008
KOTA KINABALU: The suggestion by UMNO deputy president hopeful, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to open party elections to all branch leaders and not just an elite group of some 2,500 delegates should be seriously considered.
Deputy Puteri UMNO chief, Datuk Rosnah Rashid Shirlin said the proposal was worthwhile considering as it would involve some 100,000 grassroots leaders and that would make it more meaningful to elect the party’s leaders.
Rosnah, who would be contesting the Puteri wing’s top post herself, said it could also help eradicate money politics as it would be impossible to buy of such a huge number of voters.
She said the proposal could be studied seriously and put into place in the next UMNO general assembly elections in 2011.
She said money politics in UMNO elections had gone from bad to worse because the power to elect leaders was vested in the hands of only a few delegates and the unscrupulous could be bought.
“UMNO needs to do something urgently to ensure that the party’s image is not blackened as the people would look at the party as one that has problems,” she added.
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