I found this somewhere..

The response of the umno leadership to the erosion of support for the party in the 1969 elections was to increase its capacity to mobilise malay support through various strategies such as the nep.

Later on the resurgence of pas as an islamic party led to the promulgation by the bn of the islamisation policy and the introduction of amendments to the constitution which raised the status of shariah law in the legal system.

For the first time, large sections of the electorate crossed ethnic boundaries to vote for candidate who do not represent their own ethnic group

Many people thanked pak lah that it is because of his openness that umno lost.then does it also apply that we ought to thank mahathir that it is because he put anwar to jail that we now have a different anwar? Well, anwar did say he has repented from his past sins?

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