东姑拉沙里对峇东埔补选成绩所发出的文告

话望生区国会议员
尊崇的东姑拉沙里汉恩扎
惹兰冷丘高尔夫，门牌３１号，
５５０００　吉隆坡

五个月前，我们蒙受了在我们的党史中最大的一场大选中的挫败，今天，尽管党动员了所有的领袖和资源，以及掌控了五十年来毫不间断的政府机器，无论在选战中如何的羞辱及丑陋的分化国民，巫统依旧遭遇了峇东埔的崩败。是时候面对现实了：那是我们自己被活埋了。

●　我们的领导已经被人民所唾弃，雪上加霜的是，我们也被我们自己的党员所拒绝了。在大选中，国阵选票比巫统党员的数量还要少。

●　对于反对党的灵活性，在我们的成员党之间的活动互动不良，阻击运动乏善可陈。

●　在三月八日之后，首相与他的副手仅存的公信力已经荡然无存。

对于首相作为槟城州主席以及国阵主席，今天出炉的成绩单，他是难辞其咎的。在最低程度上，他无法每日问政于民，无法领导国家在这个复杂的世界中寻找出新方向，他无法拥有所需的公信力以确保国家的团结。这个危险的局面不应继续，也将不会再继续。

我恳求巫统党员，以及诸国阵成员党，在巫统的危机一刻，支持我们，冷静的认清历史远景。马来西亚人民以及巫统的普通党员们已经找到他们的民族呼声。他们要求一个能够信任及团结人民的领导层，以还原我们的组织，为国家前途做出明确的斗争。今天证明了狂澜不能力拦，巫统必须变革，我们必须开始更新我们的党领导层，我有自信，在这个十二月我们能够办到。

东姑拉沙里汉恩扎书
Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah

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Statement on the Result of the Permatang Pauh By-Election26 August 26, 2008

YBM Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
Member of Parliament, Gua Musang
31 Jalan Langgak Golf
55000 Kuala Lumpur

Today, five months after we met with the biggest General Election loss in our history, UMNO has suffered a landslide loss at Permatang Pauh. This despite the mobilization of the entire leadership and resources of a party that has held the machinery of government without pause for fifty years. This despite a campaign that embarrassed and divided the nation with its ugliness. It is time to face the music: it is we who have been buried:

-Our leadership is rejected by the rakyat and, moreover, is rejected by our own members. BN’s vote count was less than the number of UMNO members in the constituency.
- Within and among our component parties we ran a poorly coordinated and listless campaign against a motivated Opposition.
- What scraps of credibility the Prime Minister and his Deputy had left after March 8 are gone.

Today’s report card, delivered to a Prime Minister who is accountable also as Liaison Chief of UMNO Penang and Chairman of BN, is impossible to hide: he does not have the minimal credibility needed to run the country day by day, let alone to take it in the new directions we need to go in a complex world. He may not have the credibility needed to keep the country together. This dangerous situation cannot continue, and it will not.

I appeal to the members of UMNO and of BN’s component parties to stand by UMNO in our hour of crisis, and to take a sober historical perspective. The people of Malaysia and along with them, Umno’s ordinary members, have found their democratic voice. They demand leadership that can be trusted to unite our people, to restore confidence in our institutions, and forge a clear national direction. Today is proof that this wave cannot be held back. UMNO must change. We must begin by renewing our Party leadership. I am confident that by December, we shall.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah