SUPP welcomes merger: Sim
By Lim How Pim
The Borneo Post Press ( Monday, 23th June 2008)
SPDP-PRS entity expected to enhance cooperation among BN component parties
KUCHING: Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) welcomes the merger of Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) and Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) although the enlarged entity will certainly dislodge it (SUPP) from its position as the second largest party in the state.
“Whether SUPP is No. 2 or No.3 is not that important. In the Barisan Nasional the equal rights of every component party is what matters most,” SUPP secretary-general Senator Datuk Sim Kheng Hui told reporters here yesterday.
Sim asserted that BN component parties must be “friendly” and respect each other since each (party) represented its own people or racial group.
“I don’t think being No. 2 is that important. Moreover, such status cannot last long. It has taken some time for SPDP and PRS to discuss the merger, which SUPP views with an open mind.”
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Khairy Jamaludin describe Pakatan Rakyat as “mutaah” marriage when DAP, Keadilan Rakyat and PAS intended to work as an opposition team on the last pre-election. Well, its proven that political “mutaah” was really worked and Kahiry could no resist it. Even the Prime Minister constituency is felled down to opposition. Barisan Nasional has been a “bad husband” to UMNO and let all those kids playing at the ground until the dark. Whenever the child cry for food or water, the parent (BN and UMNO) will react like a lovely father. Somehow, the family has never live in such a harmony way because the father has all the properties and did dot inherit them to his children equally. MCA and MIC is two big brothers in Barisan Nasional while Gerakan and PPP are adopted brothers. GERAKAN is a running puppy under MCA and so to PPP.
8 comments:
hail to dayaks
If they bring in the same mindset from their previous party to combine, this tag team partnership might not last long.
If they focus this coalition on the people before their own personal interest, I believe this new combined party can work. At this stage, they should deny their self political agenda to win people's heart.
expel thiong from new party
The “cold feet” reactions by Masing and Mawan to Abdul Taib’s suggestion that both PRS and SPDP upon their merger should consider joining PBB were really a slap on the face on the chief minister.
Masing said: “It needs a lot of thinking, rational thinking, and not emotional thinking” and added that a marriage was not something anyone should rush into and it should be no different for political parties although the prospect of having a well-to-do spouse was very enticing.
Mawan, on the other hand, wanted to take things step by step and the obvious step was to merge SPDP and PRS and if they could merge in a peaceful manner and they could become solid, the next step would be to go a step further in achieving solidarity of the BN government with regards to Bumiputra politics as envisaged by the chief minister.
“But you have to polish yourself first, you have to get yourself united and have a lot of common stand in a lot of things” said the SPDP president.
Taib’s suggestion stunned and startled many political observers and politicians as it was not so long ago that Taib vehemently rejected the applications made by MP Joseph Salang, MP Jawah Gerang, MP Aaron Dagang, State Assemblyman Gasbriel Adit and State Assemblyman Stanley Ajang to join PBB after they were rendered partyless with the death of PBDS in October 2004. I remember the partyless five, as they were popularly known, pleading and begging to join PBB and they waited for more than three years. And yet their applications were rejected. They then joined PRS and SPDP.
In fact all along, Taib and Dayak leaders in PBB did not want other Dayaks who were educationally better qualified to join PBB. Remember they rejected Daniel Tajem and his followers after they were expelled from SNAP in July 1983. There could be many reasons, but for the Malay/Melanau group, they did not want the Pesaka wing to be too strong otherwise it would pose a threat to the Malay/Melanau hegemony. As for Jabu, he did not want other Dayaks to over shadow his leadership. He prefers the Pesaka wing to be small. Enlarged Pesaka can mean less business opportunities and smaller cakes to be divided.
So why did Taib suddenly want PRS and SPDP to join PBB after they have merged? Was Taib really serious? Or was he being influenced by other events such as the political tsunami after the March 2008 elections, the expansion of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) to Sarawak or the promises made by PKR and DAP for a Dayak to be made the chief minister of Sarawak?
Dear Jetty,
Good points from you. I feel that the new "merge" party is a threat to CM. George Chan does not feel it as he pretends to support to avoid the migration of those "snail" Dayak in SUPP.
Whatever other leaders of political parties trying to do based on your unacademic analysis is according to you all not up to your standard. It seemed to me that you are the most perfect person on this surface earth. In fact, if I may recall your statement you want to be better than those leaders. That is what I can deduce after I have read your posting.
When the Chief Minister want these two entities to merged it is infact because he want them to be in the mainstream and to speak in one voice on issues concerning the communities. But human being a political animal just like you an me will not want that to happen. Look, it is you who have come up with the first salvo and did not want these political parties to merged. It is you who actually divide and rule them but not wanting them to merge under one political entity. Am I right? YOu are the one who want to divide them when their clear intention to merge was being manipulated by you in your blog. It is not the CM. The CM being the Chief Minister knows what is best for the state. He wants all the ethnic groups to have their own identity, but at the same time he wants to modernise the state so that we will be able to be a par with the other states in Malaysia if not even better. He wants less politicking, with all those petty issues going on around, it will slow down the process of modernization, because lots of time, efforts and even resources will be put to waste just to arrest all those petty issues and we neglect the bigge issues of modernization. Had it not been the wise move of the CM, I doubt if you will ever make it to the university. Yet after gratuadion, you took the swipe at the Chief Minister. Remember, it was the CM who was instrumental in bringing all the parties except Keadilan, Star and DAP back to the State Barisan Nasional fold. Yet you blame him again and again in you blog saying that he is a thief and all short. You are un grateful for what he has done to develop Sarawak. Had it not ben for his foresightedness, you would not have your degree in IT without Yayasan Sarawak assistance. CM was behind the idea of giving loans and scholarship given out through Yayasan Sarawak.
Think wisely before you write something detrimental to the community and to the State. You may wish to be a hero by writing all these, but time will tell and the hero will always fall.
Well,
It seems to me that CM is better than Mugabe or Castro. See, what will happened to PBB if those cronies have no logging concession to back the party? Have you ever seen SNAP with logging and gangsterism jobs?
There is nothing wrong with the development but we need a good leader and not those leaders with power greed and money politic.
As a state that produce oil, we Sarawakian deserve a lot more infrastructure development, but yet we still being marginalised. As a Dayak I am very angry because untill today our longhouses still not get connected by tar-sealroad to the big city, and still don't have clean water and electricity 24hours. Believe me, in 10years from now there will be many longhouses will be empty, and our childrens can no longer said to their friends that they will go balik kampung in Gawai Dayak or in Christmas. While in Semenanjung, even their ricefields get connected by tar-sealroad. So please Sarawak MPs, please fight for us to make our dreams come true in our lifetime, we cannot wait another empty promise during another election. Please help us now.
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