THE headquarters of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a party founded to defend the interests of Malays, Malaysia's biggest ethnic group, feels stuck in the past. Defeated sofas and tired photographs speak to glory days now gone. In the lobby is a collage of pictures of the great and good of the party, which had run the country for 60 years before losing an election last month. A baby-faced Najib Razak, the prime minister ousted just a few weeks ago, appears close to Mahathir Mohamad, his successor. But although Dr Mahathir once ran Malaysia as the leader of umno, these days he relies on the backing of a coalition of UMNO's adversaries, known as Pakatan Harapan (ph).
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