As Umno’s youth and women’s wings vie for the chance to field a candidate in the upcoming Mahkota by-election, the party’s deputy president Mohamad Hasan emphasised that the most important thing is for the candidate to be electable.

“There was a discussion at the Umno Youth level earlier, raising the motion that the selection of the candidate is important, but we agreed that the selection of the candidate will be brought from the division...