Veteran politician Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, who unsuccessfully contested the Umno president’s post three times, can only watch from the sidelines the convulsions gripping the party ahead of next week’s general assembly.

Razaleigh, who still look robust at 71, talked to Malaysiakini on a wide range of issues in a 60-minute interview at his ‘White House’ in Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.

In this first of a three-part series, he shared his views on the barring of deputy president aspirant Mohd Ali Rustam.