Peninsula-based PPP which is hoping to contest four parliamentary seats in Sarawak is unlikely to get any support from the local BN partners.
KUCHING: Peninsula-based People’s Progressive s Party (PPP), which is in a political wilderness, must “stop poking its nose in other people’s house”, or face the wrath of an increasingly exasperated Sarawak Barisan Nasional (BN) leadership.
Peter Minos, who a senior member of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), said PPP had “nothing to offer” to Sarawakians and the party should stop “dreaming”.
“PPP will do better helping itself at its home base. As people say, look after your own house well before you think of poking your nose in other people’s house,” he said.
PPP president M Kayveas had during his visit to Sarawak last weekend said he was disappointed at the attitude of certain BN component party leaders in Sarawak who stubbornly refused to accept PPP’s offer to assist them.
He warned that if the state BN leaders continued to turn down offers of assistance, they would face a similar trauma as experienced by the peninsula-based BN in the 2008 general election.
Kayveas also said that the state PPP had registered 54,000 members and insinuated that these voters “may” hold back their votes for BN if the state leaders do not budge.
PPP, he added, was eyeing four parliamentary and 12 state seats in Sarawak.
Minos described PPP’s claim to having 54,000 members as “preposterous”.
“With such a preposterous claim, why not set up a party in Sarawak and see how it fares instead of popping up in Kuching now and then and making all kinds of claims and boasts?
“PPP lost all the seats [in the 2008 polls], so what makes the party think it can do better in Sarawak?
“Just stop dreaming [Kayveas] or beating the empty drum,” he said.
PRS against PPP contesting
Sarawak BN component partner, Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president James Masing, was a little more diplomatic.
While accepting PPP’s offer to assist, he was against the party contesting in the polls in Sarawak.
“We need help from all good Samaritans during the 13th general election and we should not reject offers of help from fellow BN partners.
“But it will be impractical for PPP to contest here,”said Masing, who is a senior minister in Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s administration.
Sarawak has 31 parliamentary seats. PBB holds the biggest share of seats at 14. Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) has seven, while PRS and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) are allocated six and four seats respectively.
There are 71 seats in the State Legislative Assembly. PBB was allocated 35, SUPP (19), PRS (nine) and SPDP (eight).
In the last state polls, SUPP lost in 13 seats, SPDP (two) and PRS (one).
KUCHING: Peninsula-based People’s Progressive s Party (PPP), which is in a political wilderness, must “stop poking its nose in other people’s house”, or face the wrath of an increasingly exasperated Sarawak Barisan Nasional (BN) leadership.Peter Minos, who a senior member of Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), said PPP had “nothing to offer” to Sarawakians and the party should stop “dreaming”.
“PPP will do better helping itself at its home base. As people say, look after your own house well before you think of poking your nose in other people’s house,” he said.
PPP president M Kayveas had during his visit to Sarawak last weekend said he was disappointed at the attitude of certain BN component party leaders in Sarawak who stubbornly refused to accept PPP’s offer to assist them.
He warned that if the state BN leaders continued to turn down offers of assistance, they would face a similar trauma as experienced by the peninsula-based BN in the 2008 general election.
Kayveas also said that the state PPP had registered 54,000 members and insinuated that these voters “may” hold back their votes for BN if the state leaders do not budge.
PPP, he added, was eyeing four parliamentary and 12 state seats in Sarawak.
Minos described PPP’s claim to having 54,000 members as “preposterous”.
“With such a preposterous claim, why not set up a party in Sarawak and see how it fares instead of popping up in Kuching now and then and making all kinds of claims and boasts?
“PPP lost all the seats [in the 2008 polls], so what makes the party think it can do better in Sarawak?
“Just stop dreaming [Kayveas] or beating the empty drum,” he said.
PRS against PPP contesting
Sarawak BN component partner, Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president James Masing, was a little more diplomatic.
While accepting PPP’s offer to assist, he was against the party contesting in the polls in Sarawak.
“We need help from all good Samaritans during the 13th general election and we should not reject offers of help from fellow BN partners.
“But it will be impractical for PPP to contest here,”said Masing, who is a senior minister in Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s administration.
Sarawak has 31 parliamentary seats. PBB holds the biggest share of seats at 14. Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) has seven, while PRS and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) are allocated six and four seats respectively.
There are 71 seats in the State Legislative Assembly. PBB was allocated 35, SUPP (19), PRS (nine) and SPDP (eight).
In the last state polls, SUPP lost in 13 seats, SPDP (two) and PRS (one).
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