Ahmad Maslan, lawyers to meet RoS over no-contest motion

SHAH ALAM - Umno secretary-general Ahmad Maslan plans to meet Registrar of Societies (RoS) soon to explain the no-contest motion for the party's top posts that was passed at the Umno general assembly last weekend.

According to a report by Free Malaysia Today (FMT), Ahmad said Umno's lawyers will meet RoS and explain the procedures leading up to the motion being passed, saying that it was done following the party's constitution.

"If the delegates did not agree, they could have stood up to express their disagreement,” Ahmad was quoted as saying.

"It can be said that more than 90% of the delegates expressed their agreement by raising their hands and even standing. There were only a few dozen delegates who raised their hands or stood up to express their disapproval.

"Therefore, this became a decision reached at the general assembly. It is therefore an order, or party policy, that all Umno members must abide by," he said as reported by FMT.

The Pontian MP was reported as saying that it had been explained that the permanent chairman Tan Sri Badruddin Amiruldin had approved the proposal for the motion in accordance wirh Clause 21.1 of the assembly's rules, which was within his power as the permanent chairman.

This comes after two Umno members filed a complaint with RoS over the additional motion passed at the party’s general assembly last weekend for the top two posts not to be contested in the upcoming party elections.

They claimed that the additional motion moved was invalid and in violation of the party constitution as well as the regulations of the party’s divisional and branch annual general meetings.