NTERVIEW Umno has not always had an easy ride since its inception in 1946 as a nationalist movement for Malay sovereignty.

Since then, the oldest and biggest political party in the country has been battered by defections, splinter parties, political tsunamis, and sordid accounts of corruption and money politics. Shaken but not stirred, Umno still manages to hold itself together.

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