A Doctor In The House: A Memoir Of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad - Plot & Excerpts
Eventually, I regained my strength and was ready to face new political challenges. By this time UMNO Baru, which had been registered after the court declared the original UMNO illegal in 1988, was succeeding in gaining support from most former UMNO members. The party’s nationwide divisional structure had also been resuscitated. In Sabah, however, the Sabah People’s United Front, or Berjaya,[1] together with its Barisan Nasional partners, had lost ignominiously in the 1986 elections. Politics in Sabah had always been complicated. While the majority of Sabahans were Muslims and keen to ally themselves with the Federal Government, the Chinese-Kadazandusuns had never really felt well-disposed towards the Peninsula. This created a fractured political landscape, which was made more difficult by Sabah politicians frequently switching parties. This was so prevalent that it became a trademark of Sabah politics and continues to be a problem today. The United Sabah National Organisation, or USNO, led by the state’s first governor Tun Mustafa Harun, was allied with Tunku Abdul Rahman and UMNO.
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