Umno picks up Pas' reinvention gauntlet

From: New Straits Times | Date: October 16, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

ABDUL RAZAK AHMAD
New Straits Times
10-16-2005
Umno picks up Pas' reinvention gauntlet
Byline: ABDUL RAZAK AHMAD
Edition: New Sunday Times

PAS is determined to reinvent itself as a more open and progressive party

to regain lost support. How is Umno dealing with this? ABDUL RAZAK AHMAD
finds out.

ONE thing has remained constant in the contest between Umno and Pas to

win over the country's Bumiputera Muslim majority: Both parties are

trying to capture the same audience, but their main selling points have

always been poles apart.

On the one hand there's Umno: pragmatic and part of a multi- ...

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