KUALA LUMPUR: Barisan Nasional and Umno lawmakers remain supportive of the current Perikatan Nasional government, says Senior Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein. Hishammuddin, who is also Barisan's treasurer-general, said that lawmakers from Barisan and Umno had made their stand official, which was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. "My close friends and I in the Dewan Rakyat, not only support, but share the same views as announced earlier to continue support of the current government," he told a press conference during an event here at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia on Friday (July 30).