KUCHING: The future leadership of Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) must be groomed and ready to uphold and advance the party’s mission.
In stating this, its party president Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum said the respective division chiefs must guide and prepare members for leadership roles within PRS.
“We (PRS top leadership) at the moment, we are only leading you, leading the party for the moment.
“In the future, there will be a change of leadership and be prepared to get people who are not only like us, but better than us to take over from us later on,” he said in his address at the party’s 20th anniversary dinner held at Sheraton Hotel here last night (Oct 26).
Salang also called for quality dedicated, and people-centric individuals within the party.
“I don’t have that luxury of time for the next 20 years, but I do know that for the time being, until the next Triennial Delegates Conference (TDC), I’m still the president of the party.
“And I hope during this tenure, I lead and guide you as best I can and as sincerely as I give, I hope you take it also sincerely like what I do,” he said.
He also urged future leaders to prepare and develop themselves with a mindset of dedication to PRS.
“The Arabs have a proverb, ‘Let it be strong, but not too strong as to be brittle like glass, but at the same time not to be too soft like a strain cannot stand on itself.’ So that is the guiding principle that we as a party should have.
He also said future leaders of PRS must remain humble, serve sincerely, and while they may be at top positions, they should also be ready to be at the bottom.
“I would like to remind our division leaders to trust your top leadership, that is our principle and that we want to make sure that we are known to be together.
“We are known to support whatever is right, but we will not support what is not right and we will always agree to disagree on some principle, but at the same time, we have a stand to make sure that our rural community will never be worse than they were.
“So for that, I ask you all to trust us, we are all to protect the interests of our best,” said Salang.
