Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi pushed strongly for the general election to be held soon as well as a campaign to pardon former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak in a special briefing to party delegates in Kuala Lumpur today.

Zahid said Umno’s insistence on an early general election was a decision made by the entire party leadership and was not decided unilaterally to save himself from his court case.

“I would like to remind once again that...