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Perkasa: Malay interests will suffer with leaders like Nazri
Published:  Aug 15, 2017 7:34 PM
Updated: 2:14 PM

Malay interests will suffer in the future with more leaders like Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz, Malay-rights group Perkasa said today.

Perkasa secretary-general Syed Hassan Syed Ali said Malays should now make efforts and pray for new leaders with a strong Malay identity in order to ensure that their future interests will be protected.

“Perkasa is not surprised by the core identity of certain Umno leaders. They prefer to portray a more Westernised lifestyle.

“For sure the Malays are stunned and awed with them…,” he said in a statement.

Syed Hassan said it is therefore unsurprising that Umno can now no longer defend the status of Bahasa Melayu as the national language, with some of its own leaders having already lost their Malay identity.

As a result, he said it is now too easy to find advertisement billboards written in English, as well as English names for buildings, residential areas and condominiums...

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