Umno supreme council member Nazri Abdul Aziz believes that Umno will fare better without binding in the BN coalition together with parties that cannot rise again, soon.

Online portal Free Malaysia Today (FMT) quoted Nazri as saying today that BN was “gone” as a coalition.

“I think we (Umno) want to be alone in the peninsular. Gerakan is finished and if they want BN they can take it," he said.

Nazri added: “Being in BN with Gerakan and being totally rejected by the rakyat is a huge burden.

“Parties like MIC, MCA and Gerakan have been defeated so badly and it would be impossible for them to rise again in such a short time.

“If they can’t rise again, then how is BN supposed to function? We need to accept the fact that BN is gone.”

Nazri said this in response to Gerakan Youth deputy chief Andy Yong, who said yesterday that BN component parties should hold a supreme council meeting to decide on whether to expel Umno instead of leaving the coalition.

The Padang Rengas MP said he doesn't care if other parties would vote out Umno.

“I don’t know. Whatever they want to do, let them do it.”

Nazri said BN leaders needed to accept the fact that the coalition was no longer marketable.

The BN entered the 14th general election on May 9 with 13 component parties but is now left with only four parties, which are Umno, MCA, MIC and Gerakan.

Following the exodus of the major parties in the two Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak, the BN, which won 79 parliamentary seats in May 9 election, has been further stripped down to 57 seats.

Umno has 54 seats while MIC won two seats and the remaining one seat was won by MCA. Gerakan did not win a single seat.