PCS offers to join the Pakatan Harapan
Published on: Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Kuala Lumpur: Parti Cinta Sabah (PCS) has offered to join Pakatan Harapan (PH) following its exit from the local opposition United Sabah Alliance (USA) in April.Sabah PKR Youth chief Raymond Ahuar said PCS had offered to pledge its allegiance to PH in the east Malaysian state.Adding that PH is finding it difficult to gain support from opposition parties in Sabah and Sarawak, he said the coalition was seriously considering PCS' proposal to join its ranks.
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Ahuar said it would be nearly impossible to have a straight electoral fight in Sabah as there are several parties cropping up, with many people waiting to get their hands on nomination forms for the next election.Ahuar, who lost the contest for the Nabawan state seat in the last election in 2013, said there were many people gearing up to run there in the 14th general election, due by the middle of 2018.On April 28, PCS president Wilfred Bumburing said the party's supreme council had decided to leave the two-year-old USA in order to better facilitate a working relationship with all Sabah opposition parties to achieve straight fights against the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN)."The PCS supreme council members were unanimous in their opinion that parties within USA are not united in the quest for regime change. Some want to have political cooperation only after the election," he had said.
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"With the current state of affairs within USA, we will not be able to achieve that objective," he added after a council meeting.Bumburing expressed hope that by leaving the coalition, PCS could play a prominent role in facilitating formal discussions with all opposition parties in Sabah to form a grand alliance.
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