MIRI: Will Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) help BN and its unity government coalition partners campaign in the coming six state elections in Malaya?
It all depends, said Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) women chief Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah, who told reporters that the GPS leadership would have to first discuss before arriving at a decision.
She said Sarawak’s political scenario is different from that of Malaya.
“Our struggles are different, GPS in Sarawak has been prioritising Sarawak first and its people, and I believe further discussions should be held before making any decision,” she told the media here last night (July 3).
Fatimah who is the Minister for Women, Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development, was closing a day-long engagement programme with various women non-governmental organisations.
Also present was her deputy Datuk Rosey Yunus.
Fatimah was commenting on BN chairman and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Patinggi Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s suggestion to GPS leaders to assist in the election campaigns in the six states, namely Penang, Selangor, Terengganu, Kelantan, Kedah and Negeri Sembilan which would soon go to the polls.
Ahmad Zahid told a media conference after a ‘Merarau Ngiling Tikai’ event organised by Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) in Sri Aman over the weekend that he wanted Sarawak’s agenda of political stability to be adopted by BN machinery during the election campaigns.
“I have discussed with GPS secretary-general Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi to bring GPS leaders to assist in the campaign in the six states.
“InsyaAllah Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg himself would select who would assist us in the campaign. I am confident the experience of the state election in Sarawak would be useful to us (BN) to adopt in the six states.
“As an example, the leadership of Abang Johari in treating all parties well in Sarawak, should be followed in the peninsula, and not to play up issues of differences including religious issues which could result in slanders and cause uneasiness among people,“ he said.
