{"id":16728,"date":"2023-02-26T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merdeka.org\/v2\/keen-umno-polls-contests-a-healthy-sign-of-democracy-says-zahid\/"},"modified":"2023-02-26T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T12:44:31","slug":"keen-umno-polls-contests-a-healthy-sign-of-democracy-says-zahid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merdeka.org\/v2\/keen-umno-polls-contests-a-healthy-sign-of-democracy-says-zahid\/","title":{"rendered":"Keen Umno polls contests a healthy sign of democracy, says Zahid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nolwrap\"><p>GUA MUSANG: The high number of candidates contesting in the Umno 2023 elections shows that democracy is alive and well in the party, says its president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. The Umno president said this also showed that the candidates believed that party had a bright future. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/nation\/2023\/02\/26\/keen-umno-polls-contests-a-healthy-sign-of-democracy-says-zahid\">Read full story<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUA MUSANG: The high number of candidates contesting in the Umno 2023 elections shows that democracy is alive and well<\/p>\n<p class=\"parent-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/merdeka.org\/v2\/keen-umno-polls-contests-a-healthy-sign-of-democracy-says-zahid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keen Umno polls contests a healthy sign of democracy, says Zahid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-external-news","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.13 - 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