Nazri said that the nail in the coffin for BN was when the four parties in Sarawak decided to quit the coalition last week. — Picture by Miera Zulyana/Malay Mail
KUCHING: Barisan Nasional is as good as dead but Umno should continue its political fight alone, supreme council member Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz has said, reported Malay Mail.
Nazri told the online news portal that the nail in the coffin for BN was when the four parties in Sarawak— Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) and Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) — decided to quit the coalition last Tuesday.
“We only had Sarawak, now they left, so there is no future. I want Umno to go alone, and contest alone even in Sabah and Sarawak.
“Maybe for those two states we can try and work with old friends,” he was quoted as saying, in an optimistic reference towards PBB and PRS who recently left the coalition.
“BN is gone, we cannot carry on with BN now. The three main component parties, MCA, MIC, and Gerakan are all finished.
“So how to continue as BN?” Nazri lamented when contacted by Malay Mail.
BN saw its worst ever performance during GE14, when it lost control of the federal government for the first time in 61 years. Over the period of just over a month, BN has seen the coalition shrink from 13 component parties, to just four following the departure of nine component parties.