COMMENT | Who will make a better Umno president, H2O or KJ?

COMMENT | The decision to ban the top two posts in Umno from being contested was not unexpected.

Despite the talk by some individuals about reforming the party, despite talk about taking steps to reverse Umno's poor performance at GE15, it didn't look like there was much stomach for real reform.

The outcome of the Umno general assembly was that the main leaders protected their positions, and their supporters went along with it, even if there were some rumblings within its ranks.

More importantly, the few politicians who claimed they had had enough and would reform the party offered lukewarm resistance to the ban...