MALAY MAIL
KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 ― Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi is the new Umno president in the highly-anticipated internal polls for the party that is seeking to rebuild itself after a crushing electoral defeat.
In the official early results announced by Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor at 12.30am, former prime minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was confirmed to have received 78 votes, while runner up Rembau MP Khairy Jamaluddin received 53 votes.
Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah garnered the support of 28 divisions.
The other relatively unknown candidates in the five-man race for the Umno president post are Bandar Tun Razak committee member Mohamed Iqbal Maricair and Iskandar Puteri member Mohd Yusof Musa@Jamaluddin.
Neither garnered any votes today.
Tengku Adnan said the party would release a statement of the complete results in the morning after tabulation of the votes had been done.
Following the 13-party Barisan Nasional's (BN) shock defeat in the 14th general elections where it lost federal power for the first time after failing to achieve a simple parliamentary majority, Datuk Seri Najib Razak resigned as coalition chairman and its mainstay party Umno president.
Zahid, who won his Bagan Datuk parliamentary seat for the sixth time with a 5,073 majority in a three-corner contest, then took on the role of Umno acting president and acting chairman of BN which is now reduced to three parties.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 — Former Negeri Sembilan Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan has won the Umno deputy presidency.
The Rembau born 62-year-old went up against party supreme council member Tan Sri Annuar Musa.
However the final results have yet to be announced
Mohamad was Negeri Sembilan MB since 2004 and is also the Rembau Umno division chief.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 ― Umno vice-president candidates Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid have been confirmed as Umno vice-presidents.
Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor confirmed the election results, but stopped short of naming the third vice-president.
“At the moment Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin and Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani is having a neck-to-neck fight to clinch the third post.
“There are still votes from 34 divisions nationwide yet to be officially counted by the party headquarter.
“However the votes from these 34 divisions would not affect the results of the first and second candidates,” he said during a press conference at Menara Dato' Onn today.
Tengku Adnan said at the time of reporting, both candidates had only a five-vote difference between them.
He also clarified the party may have to suspend the Bakri division vote counts due to problems that have yet to be verified.
“Instead of counting 191 divisions, we would therefore only include 190 divisions and we are investigating the matter,” he said.
Ismail, a Umno Supreme Council member before today's party polls, won the highest number of votes at 146 followed by former Supreme Council member Mahdzir who obtained 99 votes.
