This is despite calls by several NGOs to do so.

Harris Idaham Rashid said Perikatan Nasional had already proven it could secure Malay votes, especially the youth, based on its performance in the 2022 general election and the 2023 state polls.

PN secured 74 seats in the 15th general election, with PAS winning 49, the highest number of seats won by any single party.

“PN has emerged as a coalition that has won over the public,” he told FMT.

The Bersatu Youth information chief said the Ikatan Prihatin Rakyat (IPR), a loose alliance PN formed with several other opposition parties, will serve as a “new political model”.

“IPR has succeeded in uniting opposition parties and has already gained traction.”

Harris’s comments follow calls by Malay-based Perkasa and 16 other NGOs, for Umno to revive MN or cooperate with PN, as well as to refrain from working with Pakatan Harapan in the next nationwide polls.

Umno and PAS, the country’s two largest Malay-based parties, had formed MN six years ago with the aim of uniting the ummah.

It, however, collapsed after PAS chose to work with Bersatu – a move which Umno viewed as a betrayal. In May 2022, Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi declared MN “as good as dead”.

In September last year, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang revealed that the party was still courting Umno to join MN, as long as Zahid was not involved.

Harris pointed out that MN failed because Umno only wanted to work with PAS.

“But PAS insisted that it would not continue with the electoral pact if Bersatu was not included.”