COMMENT | Umno, Malaysia’s once-mighty political titan, is a rotting husk—its veins clogged with the greed of its old guard, the reckless bluster of its new blood, and the fading echoes of its BN empire.

For decades, Umno ruled with an iron fist, its financial machinery built on state plunder and corporate cronyism, propped up by a coalition that bent Malaysia to its will.