UMNO's recent party elections saw president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi cementing his grip on the party, with his loyalists sweeping most of the top posts, including two out of three vice-president posts. Ibrahim Suffian, Program Director at Merdeka Centre, helps us analyse what this means for the party's future as Perikatan Nasional seeks to oust Umno's self-declared position as champion of the Malay race and Islam.

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Produced by: Sim Wie Boon

Presented by: Keith Kam, Shazana Mokhtar

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Categories:  politics

Tags:  ethnoreligious rhetorics,  umno,  zahid hamidi,  perikatan nasional,