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UMNO To Hold General Assembly Meeting In March

ASIA

Malaysian media outlets report that Prime Minister Ismail Sabri's United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) will hold the annual General Assembly meeting during the four days starting March 16.

  • The date was decided at the meeting of UMNO Supreme Council, who also pledged support for the Prime Minister.
  • The General Assembly will be held in person, with 14 delegates from each division of the party attending.
  • The meeting was initially scheduled for January but was postponed owing to the floods that hit parts of the country.
  • Any fallout from the meeting may shed light on the dynamics driving factional frictions within Malaysia's largest political party, after reports of infighting surfaced repeatedly over the last year.

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