Elections must be clean and healthy: Najib

NEW YORK: Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has expressed the hope that this year's upcoming Umno elections would be seen as a clean and healthy process.

He said Umno members should play their role in ensuring that the electoral system brought about the transformation desired by the party.

Najib, who is the Malaysian prime minister, said the elections this time around banked on the integrity of the candidates to hold any position in Umno, regardless of whether it was at the national or divisional levels.

He said Umno had introduced a new constitution which provided greater democracy to the party members.

The new constitution allowed for up to 150,000 members to elect their leaders, he told Malaysian journalists covering his working visit to San Francisco and New York from Sept 22 to yesterday. -Bernama

(Source: http://www.nst.com.my)