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Towards GE16 litmus test, Najib's freedom Umno's top priority. Umno supreme council member Mohd Puad Zarkashi agreed with DAP deputy secretary-general Liew Chin Tong that the next general election is the main battlefield for the coalition govt. “There should be no idiotic formulas, which become butt of jokes. For Umno, as the Najib issue is a prodigy important to Umno Party.

Stressing the importance for ministers and the government to prove to the public that it is a high-performing administration, he took a potshot at Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli and reiterated Umno’s commitment to securing its former president Najib Abdul Razak’s freedom.