Umno Youth to woo 4 million young voters

Tuesday June 10, 2008

Umno Youth to woo 4 million young voters


Umno Youth launched an Action Plan and the Umno Rejuvenation Secretariat Working Frame to form strategies to reach out to the young people so that they will support Umno in the next general election.

The action plan targets about four million young voters below the age of 40 who make up a large part of non-Umno supporters.

“The Umno Rejuvenation Secretariat will approach the young people who comprise Malay professionals, university student associations, non-governmental organisations, youth associations and entrepreneur associations in the country,” said Umno Youth Education Bureau deputy chairman Harrison Hassan, after chairing its first meeting here yesterday.

After the meeting, he launched the Action Plan and the Working Frame.

He also said that Umno Youth had to accept the fact that conventional approaches no longer worked with today’s youth, who had “drifted away” from Umno during the recent general election.

Meanwhile, the MCA Youth expressed its support for the setting up of the six special secretariats by Umno Youth.

Its chief Datuk Liow Tiong Lai said he was confident that with the main secretariat headed by Umno Youth chief Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, it would be able to monitor and respond to the issues that crop up relating to the youth, society and the country