Azalina, an Umno Supreme Council member, said she believes BN can only capture between 90 and 100 seats if it does not push for further reforms.

“We want (at least) 148 parliamentary seats, which is two-thirds (majority). If we enter with ‘what BN has’, we cannot possibly get 148. We may get a maximum of 90 to 100 seats only,” she told delegates at the coalition’s convention here.

She said BN must not settle for 100 seats and that it must learn from Pakatan Harapan’s failure to deliver on its reform promises.

“We cannot be like the ‘other side’. When they were the government for 22 months, they gave ‘chicken eggs’ to the people. We have to fulfil our promises,” she said.

On top of a reform agenda, Azalina said BN must ensure that the anti-hopping law, which should be tabled this July, is approved and enforced before GE15.

“To whoever has left us, go ahead. But the seat is ours,” she said.

In the aftermath of BN’s loss in GE14, the coalition lost many of its seats after most of its component parties quit and a number of its MPs defected.