‘Survival tactic’: UMNO’s proposed ‘grand collaboration’ of Malay-Islamic parties is a hedging strategy, but will it work?

‘Survival tactic’: UMNO’s proposed ‘grand collaboration’ of Malay-Islamic parties is a hedging strategy, but will it work?

The recent general assembly of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) saw it pitching a grand Malay-Muslim alliance while pledging to stay anchored in Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government.