SEREMBAN: Parti Warisan (Warisan) will focus on strengthening the party first before deciding to establish cooperation with other coalitions or parties, said its President Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal.
He said the priority now was building the ‘house’(Warisan) in state and seats that it has the potential to capture in the 15th General Elections (GE15).
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“What’s important, is we strengthened our house (Party) first. Once we have achieved that, only then will we talk about collaboration and coalition partners,” he said after officiating the Negeri Sembilan Warisan Liaison Office.
He admitted that it won’t be easy for Warisan to contest alone in the Peninsula compared to Sabah but the Semporna MP said the party will scrutinise which coalition is more suitable to be formed to face GE15.
“We realised that it is not easy to contest alone but we are already used to contesting alone in Sabah. In Sabah, we succeeded as a single party, no coalition and I believe in the peninsula the formula will not work because here cooperation with other parties is needed,” he said.
Shafie said Warisan had yet to decide on the number of parliamentary or state seats it would contest.
However, he said, the party had an idea about the seats it would contest in the peninsula, including Terengganu and Pahang.
He said Warisan’s focus now was on introducing and strengthening the party in the peninsula.
“I am confident Warisan will be well received because we are a multiracial party.”
“Warisan entered the peninsula not to divide the people but to provide space for them to make a choice. We are an alternative party.”
Meanwhile, he declined to comment on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s move to open investigation papers into those said to have received money, as claimed by a witness in the corruption trial of former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Shafie’s name was among those listed as receiving funds from Ultra Kirana Sdn Bhd.
