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Ketua Menteri Sabah itu berkata kuasa autonomi untuk Sabah merupakan
perkara utama yang diperjuangkan parti itu dan ia sesuatu yang tidak
boleh ditukar ganti dan kerajaan negeri Sabah perlu ditentukan rakyat
negeri ini sendiri, bukan oleh Kuala Lumpur.“Kami boleh berunding tentang pengagihan kerusi, tapi autonomi Sabah tidak boleh dirunding. Malah, saya, Yong Teck Lee, sanggup bertanding atas tiket PKR sekiranya Anwar berjanji akan memberi autonomi kepada Sabah,” katanya kepada pemberita pada majlis rumah terbuka parti itu di Dewan SM Kian Kok Hall, dekat sini hari ini.
Yong berkata demikian apabila diminta mengulas kenyataan Anwar yang ingin melihat SAPP bergabung dengan pakatan pembangkang dan kesediaan beliau untuk bertolak ansur tentang pengagihan kerusi bagi menghadapi pilihan raya umum akan datang. — Bernama
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Both PR and its allies in the two newly-formed Sabah-based political movements APS and PPPS told The Malaysian Insider that the fight in Sabah, like all other states in Malaysia, would be centred between BN and PR.
Bumburing said the coming polls contest in Sabah would be between BN and PR.
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) is confident it does not need a pact with Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) to topple Barisan Nasional (BN) in Sabah, a state considered crucial for the federal opposition pact’s dream to wrest federal power in Election 2013.
All other players in the battle would be considered too “irrelevant” to make a difference in the opposition vote, they said.
Sabah’s opposition front is a particularly crowded one, with PR’s three parties — the DAP, PKR and PAS — its new allies APS and PPPS, and two other opposition parties, the SAPP and the State Reform Party (STAR) under political veteran Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan.
All seven political movements had earlier wanted to stand united against BN but following the failure of seat distribution, the polls contest will likely be a three- or four-cornered fight with BN.
APS or Angkatan Perubahan Sabah chief Datuk Seri Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing told The Malaysian Insider that the SAPP’s refusal to back down from its “greedy” demands to contest at least half of the 60-seat Sabah legislative assembly had led to the breakdown in seat negotiations with PR.
He called the SAPP chief “sour grapes” for starting the verbal warfare against himself and another new Sabah PR ally, Pertubuhan Pakatan Perubahan Sabah (PPPS) chief Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin, after realising that his party’s seat demands would be turned down.
Last week, SAPP chief Datuk Yong Teck Lee likened both men to buffaloes led around by their nose rings, saying the duo were forced to kowtow to PR’s leaders in the peninsula to lobby for seats in the coming general election.
The Tuaran MP added that Yong, a former Sabah chief minister whose party’s main agenda is to retain power over Sabah in the hands of Sabah-based parties, was never interested in the opposition’s struggle.
Yong’s SAPP wants to contest at least half of the 60-seat Sabah legislative assembly.
“I am not in the least bit offended by his remarks. It is just sour grapes. Knowing that his chances with PR are almost nil, he decided to spew nonsense to discredit us,” Bumburing said in a phone call with The Malaysian Insider
The Tuaran MP added that Yong, a former Sabah chief minister whose party’s main agenda is to retain power over Sabah in the hands of Sabah-based parties, was never interested in the opposition’s struggle.
“He only wants to join the fight in this manner because he wants to be chief minister again... it is just his personal interest. So he is so desperate to have his way... this is his only chance to become chief minister again.
“But come on, even in Sabah’s political history, there have never been straight fights. But despite this, Sabahans have always voted for the two main parties in the battle,” Bumburing pointed out.
The known Kadazandusun leader insisted that from his observations in Sabah, even before he left his post as BN’s United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun and Murut Organisation (UPKO) deputy president, the coming polls contest would be between BN and PR.
PR, a loose political pact formed after the DAP, PKR and PAS made significant wins in Election 2008, particularly in the peninsula, has been growing significantly in strength and in numbers and has even spread its wings across the South China Sea to east Malaysia to boost support.
“I know for sure that the people are now making up their minds, and for most, their minds have already been made up... so when the campaigning starts, the choice is between PR and BN. SAPP and the others would make little difference.
“SAPP and STAR are only just playing politics in between... they will remain lost in the middle,” Bumburing said.
PKR vice-president Chua Tian Chang told The Malaysian Insider over the weekend that he agreed with Bumburing that the focus of the coming electoral contest was between BN and PR.
“That was the fight from the very beginning... our expectation was that we all commit to one agenda, and that is for the public to choose between BN and PR.
“We have always been interested in sharing seats with the SAPP but unfortunately, they could not accede to us. So now, we have no choice but to go ahead between PR, APS and PPPS,” he said.
Last week, PKR deputy president Azmin Ali said the SAPP has formally been excluded from seat talks with PR due to the Sabah-based party’s refusal to back down from demanding to contest at least half the state’s 60 seats.
Yong’s contention had been that for administrative power over Sabah to remain in the hands of Sabahans, only state-based parties should contest the lion’s share of the 60 seats.
Peninsula-based PR, he had said, could take on the majority of Sabah’s 25 MP seats, allowing it to represent the state in Parliament and its dream to wrest Putrajaya.
In Election 2008, BN swept 59 of the state’s 60 seats and 24 of the 25 MP seats. But later in 2008, SAPP pulled out from BN, taking its two MP and two state seats with it.
The coming polls contest will be a hard-fought one between BN and PR and all eyes will be centred on the polls outcome in Sabah, Sarawak and Johor, the three states where BN still has strong representation.
opposition is trying to confuse people with sedition and create a negative perception of the BN government.
tanggungjawab rakyat ialah untuk memilih kerajaan yang boleh memastikan masa depan yang cerah kepada semua lapisan masyarakat dan negara umumnya...
dan bukannya semata-mata mengharapkan janji-janji yang tidak jelas dari sesebuah parti yang hanya pentingkan kuasa dan kekayaan...
Surely Sabah is still BN’s stronghold..
we know the majority of the people still supports BN
DAP Negeri Selangor hari ini dikhabarkan memberi kata dua kepada pucuk pimpinan PKR bahawa mereka tetap menyokong Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim dan akan menumbangkan Pakatan di Selangor jika Azmin Ali dipilih mengganti Khalid.
Ronnie Liu dan Teresa Kok memberi jaminan kepada Tan Sri Khalid bahawa DAP menyokong beliau.
Dilaporkan Teresa dan Ronnie turut menghantar sms kepada Datuk Seri Anwar, Datin Seri Wan Azizah dan Syed Husin menyatakan pendirian keras DAP mahukan Khalid kekal sebagai MB. Malah mereka bersedia keluar Pakatan jika Azmin dipilih menggantikan Khalid.
Ini bezanya Pakatan dan BN.
Pembangkang ini sentiasa berbalah.
Sesama pembangkang tak henti masing2 dengan cara masing.
Akhirnya tak henti mereka ini berkelahi dan bergaduh. Macam mana memerintah negeri tapi sentiasa tak stabil.
Benda macam ini tak berlaku dalam BN.
Kalau UMNO yang majoriti di sebuah negeri itu, pilihan UMNO dihormati oleh parti-parti lain.
JIka ada masaalah sesama mereka, ianya dibuat secara muzakarah dan tak perlu bertelagah sesama sendiri secara terbuka di luar.
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) telah secara rasmi mengeluarkan Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) dari rundingan kerusi pembangkang di Sabah, Mohamed Azmin Ali mengesahkan, menegaskan permintaan parti tersebut tidak munasabah untuk dilayan.
Timbalan Presiden PKR itu memenyatakan PR dengan sekutu baru di Sabah Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS) dan Pertubuhan Pakatan Perubahan Sabah (PPPS) — hampir bersetuju dengan formula perkongsian kerusi mereka.
“Hanya terdapat beberapa sahaja kerusi lagi yang bertindih. Tetapi sekarang kita meminta Majlis Presiden PR untuk membimbing dalam menentukan kerusi yang harus ditandingi oleh setiap parti,” kata Azmin
Akan tetapi ahli parlimen Gombak itu yang kini mengetuai rundingan kerusi dengan APS dan PPPS, tidak akan mendedahkan formula perkongsian kerusi dengan dua pergerakkan berasaskan Sabah itu kerana sebab-sebab strategik.
“Tetapi SAPP dikeluarkan terus dari senarai, dikeluarkan dari formula. Saya tidak menyalahkan mereka kerana apa-apa, hanya kerana tuntutan mereka tidak munasabah,” Azmin mengesahkan.
SAPP, parti yang hampir berusia dua dekad diketuai oleh bekas ketua menteri Sabah Datuk Yong Teck Lee, pada awalnya telah bersetuju untuk bekerjasama dengan PR dalam Pilihan Raya 2013 untuk menjatuhkan BN di kubu mereka di Malaysia Timur, tetapi menegaskan parti tempatan perlu bertanding dengan jumlah besar daripada 60 kerusi dewan undangan negeri.
Akan tetapi Azmin memberitahu The Malaysian Insider permintaan Yong untuk 40 atau separuh daripada 60 kerusi negeri adalah tidak munasabah. “Kenapa mereka mahu 40 kerusi sekarang? Jadi apa yang tinggal untuk parti pembangkang lain dalam Pakatan, dalam APS dan PPPS?” kata Azmin.
SAPP Dan PKR Tiada Persefahaman Sebagai Pembangkang Di Sabah
Barisan Nasional (BN) Sabah memerhati segala tindak-tanduk Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) dan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) yang dilihat gagal mencapai kata sepakat sebagai pembangkang di Sabah.
Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sabah Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan berkata perkara itu menunjukkan kumpulan pembangkang tidak boleh dipercayai untuk memegang tampuk pemerintahan negara.
Bercakap kepada pemberita pada majlis rumah terbuka Tahun Baharu Cina anjuran Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) di sini pada Isnin, beliau berkata ini berbeza dengan kerajaan BN yang lebih menumpu perhatian terhadap keperluan untuk berkhidmat dan memberi yang terbaik kepada rakyat.
Pairin, yang juga Presiden PBS, berkata rakyat terutama golongan atas pagarperlu membuat penilaian yang betul terhadap segala usaha dan pendekatan kerajaanBN pada pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Katanya hanya kerajaan BN yang mampu membela dan meningkatkan taraf ekonomimereka berdasarkan pengalaman melaksanakan pelbagai program tranfsformasi.
Mengenai kesudian SAPP untuk kembali ke pangkuan BN, beliau berkata: "Sekarang ini mereka sudah keluar...kalau mereka mahu masuk mereka fikir-fikirsendirilah."
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) sangat yakin mereka tidak memerlukan Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) untuk mengalahkan Barisan Nasional (BN) di Sabah, negeri yang dianggap penting untuk merealisasikan impian mereka untuk menawan Putrajaya dalam Pilihan Raya 2013.
Kedua PR dan sekutu baru mereka Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS) dan Pertubuhan Pakatan Perubahan Sabah (PPPS) memberitahu The Malaysian Insider perlawanan di Sabah, seperti negeri lain di Malaysia, akan tertumpu kepada diantara BN dan PR.
Semua pemain lain dalam pertempuran akan dianggap “tidak relevan” untuk membuat perubahan dalam undi pembangkang, kata mereka.
Barisan pembangkang di Sabah amat sesak, dengan tiga parti PR DAP, PKR dan PAS, sekutu baru APS dan PPPS, dan dua parti pembangkang lain SAPP dan Parti Pembaharuan Negeri (STAR) yang di pimpin oleh ahli politik veteran, Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan.
Semua tujuh pergerakan politik sebelum ini mahu bersatu menentang BN tetapi kegagalan pengagihan kerusi menyebabkan pilihan raya akan datang mungkin akan menyaksikan pertandingan tiga atau empat penjuru melawan BN.
Sekutu PR baru berasaskan Sabah, Ketua APS Datuk Seri Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing (gambar) memberitahu The Malaysian Insider keengganan SAPP untuk mengalah dari permintaan yang “tamak” untuk bertanding sekurang-kurangnya lebih separuh darpada 60 kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) menyebabkan rundingan kerusi mereka dengan PR mengalami kebuntuan.
Beliau memanggil ketua SAPP sebagai “anggur masam” kerana memulakan peperangan mulut terhadap dirinya dan seorang lagi sekutu baru PR Sabah, Ketua PPPS Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin, selepas menyedari permintaan kerusi parti mereka akan ditolak.
Minggu lepas, ketua SAPP Datuk Yong Teck Lee menyamakan kedua-dua lelaki itu sebagai kerbau yang dicucuk hidung, mengatakan kedua-duanya terpaksa tunduk kepada pemimpin-pemimpin PR di Semenanjung untuk melobi kerusi dalam pilihan raya umum akan datang.
“Saya tidak sedikitpun tersinggung dengan kenyataannya,” kata Bumburing dalam perbualan telefon bersama The Malaysian Insider. “Beliau hanyalah anggur masam. Mengetahui peluangnya dengan PR hampir gagal, beliau cuba untuk mengeluarkan kata-kata mengarut untuk merendahkan kami.”
“Saya tidak sedikitpun tersinggung dengan kenyataannya,” kata Bumburing dalam perbualan telefon bersama The Malaysian Insider. “Beliau hanyalah anggur masam. Mengetahui peluangnya dengan PR hampir gagal, beliau cuba untuk mengeluarkan kata-kata mengarut untuk merendahkan kami.”
Ahli parlimen Tuaran itu menambah, Yong bekas ketua menteri Sabah yang agenda partinya hanya untuk mempertahankan Sabah ditangan parti berasaskan Sabah, tidak pernah berminat dengan perjuangan pembangkang.
Ahli parlimen Tuaran itu menambah, Yong bekas ketua menteri Sabah yang agenda partinya hanya untuk mempertahankan Sabah ditangan parti berasaskan Sabah, tidak pernah berminat dengan perjuangan pembangkang.
“Beliau hanya mahu menyertai perjuangan dengan cara ini kerana mahu menjadi ketua menteri sekali lagi ... ia hanya kepentingan peribadi beliau. Jadi beliau begitu terdesak untuk mempunyai cara beliau ... ini adalah peluang peluang terakhir untuk beliau menjadi ketua menteri lagi,” tegas Bumburing.
“Tetapi lihatlah, walaupun dalam sejarah politik Sabah, tidak pernah ada pertembungan satu lawan satu. Tetapi rakyat Sabah sentiasa mengundi untuk kedua-dua pihak utama dalam pertempuran.”
Pemimpin Kadazandusun terkenal itu menegaskan pemerhatian beliau di Sabah, termasuk sebelum meninggalkan jawatannya sebagai timbalan presiden Pertubuhan Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun dan Murut Bersatu (UPKO) dari BN, pilihan raya akan datang adalah diantara BN dan PR.
PR, gabungan longgar yang ditubuhkan selepas DAP, PKR dan PAS menang secara signifikan dalam Pilihan Raya 2008, terutamanya di Semenanjung, berkembang dengan ketara dalam kekuatan dan angka dan telah pun melebarkan sayapnya merentasi Laut China Selatan ke Malaysia Timur untuk meningkatkan sokongan.
I don't think that is.
Bukan SAPP bertanding atas nama sendiri?
Wait and see its progress.
CM Datuk Seri Musa Aman reminded youths not to be deceived by the opposition who keep telling lies and empty promises.
Musa who is also Sabah BN chairman said youths needed to open their minds and be wise in choosing the next leadership.
Musa explained that various facilities and assistance had been provided by the government to ensure that youths were not marginalised from development.
Sabah has received various development projects with a substantial budget and various programmes had been implemented which are beneficial to all, including the youths
Musa also urged all BN machinery to continue working for the people and identify voters at their respective areas.
Kita tengok sejauh mana SAPP boleh pergi.
Let's see if PR could make it.
kesanggupan YTL untuk bertanding di bawah tiket PKR menunjukkan betapa terdesaknya YTL...
ini juga membuktikan bahawa YTL sanggup mengkhianati kepercayaan yang diberikan kepadanya oleh parti SAPP hingga sanggup membelakangkan parti..
kenyataan YTL ini juga patut diambil serius oelh pemimpin2 SAPP lain agar segera memecat/menyingkirkan YTL...
kini SAPP sudah disingkirkan oleh PKR daripada rundingan kerusi...mungkin ini adalah cara terakhir YTL untuk memastikan karier politiknya tidak terus terkubur selepas PRU13..
apa yang pasti, pertandingan 4 penjuru sudah tidak dapat dielakkan lagi oleh parti2 pembangkang di sabah...undi pembangkang sudah pasti akan pecah..
Pakatan Rakyat (PR) has officially excluded Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) from seat negotiations on Sabah’s opposition front, PKR’s Azmin Ali has confirmed, insisting the party’s demands are too unreasonable to accommodate.
The PKR deputy president told The Malaysian Insider that on the state-level, PR and its new Sabah allies — Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS) and Pertubuhan Pakatan Perubahan Sabah (PPPS) — have nearly agreed on a seat-sharing formula.
“There are just a few more overlapping seats. But we are now asking the PR presidential council to guide us in determining which seats should be contested by which party,” Azmin (picture) said when contacted here, adding that the matter was raised at Wednesday’s political bureau meeting.
But the Gombak MP, who has been leading seat talks with APS and PPPS, would not reveal PR’s seat-sharing formula with the two Sabah-based movements for strategic reasons.
APS is led by Tuaran MP Datuk Seri Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing, formerly the deputy president of Barisan Nasional’s (BN) United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO), while PPPS is led by Beaufort MP and former Umno supreme council member Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin.
“But SAPP is completely out of the list, out of our formula. I am not blaming them for anything, simply that their demands are unreasonable,” Azmin confirmed.
SAPP, a nearly two-decade-old party led by former Sabah chief minister Datuk Yong Teck Lee, had earlier agreed to collaborate with PR in Election 2013 to topple BN from its east Malaysian fortress, but has been insisting that local parties must contest the lion’s share of the 60 seats in the state’s legislative assembly.
Yong said the peninsula-based PR can contest the majority of Sabah’s 25 federal seats to help its bid for Putrajaya but maintained that administrative power over the state must stay in the hands of parties with roots in Sabah.
He said that this would be in keeping with the state’s right to autonomy as enshrined in the 1963 Malaysia Agreement.
But Azmin told The Malaysian Insider that Yong’s demand for 40 or even half the state’s 60 seats was unreasonable.
He pointed out that when SAPP contested under BN in Election 2008, the party had only won two seats in Parliament and two in the state legislature. SAPP officially withdrew from BN in September 2008 and became an independent party.
“But they want 40 seats now? Then what is left for the rest of the opposition parties in Pakatan, in APS and PPPS?” Azmin said.
“I have tried my best and so has (PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri) Anwar (Ibrahim)... we met and discussed with SAPP for the last six months and we made our offer to them — one that is even bigger than what they got in the last polls,” he added.
When asked what was PR’s offer to SAPP, Azmin replied that the federal opposition pact was willing to relinquish 10 seats to the Sabah-based party.
He added that they were “good seats” where SAPP was likely to stand a fair chance of winning, but the party still refused the offer.
“They came back to us and said they want 40 seats,” Azmin said.
“So we have decided — we will proceed with APS and PPPS alone, due to the time constraint,” he said.
Both men have also recently found themselves the target of verbal attacks from Yong, who on Tuesday called them buffaloes led around by their nose rings.
The outspoken leader, who is known among Sabah’s Hakka Chinese, alleged that both Bumburing and Lajim have “no choice” but to kowtow to their newfound PR friends from the peninsula to lobby for spots in the coming polls contest.
SAPP dan PKR will never cooperate now.
Barisan Nasional (BN) Sabah memerhati segala tindak-tanduk Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) dan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) yang dilihat gagal mencapai kata sepakat sebagai pembangkang di Sabah.
Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sabah Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan berkata perkara itu menunjukkan kumpulan pembangkang tidak boleh dipercayai untuk memegang tampuk pemerintahan negara.
beliau berkata ini berbeza dengan kerajaan BN yang lebih menumpu perhatian terhadap keperluan untuk berkhidmat dan memberi yang terbaik kepada rakyat.
Pairin, yang juga Presiden PBS, berkata rakyat terutama golongan atas pagarperlu membuat penilaian yang betul terhadap segala usaha dan pendekatan kerajaanBN pada pilihan raya umum akan datang.
Katanya hanya kerajaan BN yang mampu membela dan meningkatkan taraf ekonomimereka berdasarkan pengalaman melaksanakan pelbagai program tranfsformasi.
SAPP and Star hanya memeriahkan PRU yang akan datang.
Apa yang pasti, BN tetap kukuh di Sabah.
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