KOTA KINABALU: Leaders from Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and STAR have carried out discussions between them on matters related to the coming 13th general election.
SAPP president Datuk Yong Teck Lee told reporters yesterday, "our leaders had very cordial discussion with some leaders of STAR. The discussion involved myself, our three deputy presidents and Datuk Mohd Noor Mansor and Dr Jeffrey with some of his senior colleagues.
"We have converged on a number of issues and we have laid out the parameters of where we can work on and we are confident of further progress," he said at the weekly SAPP weekly mobile service at Gaya Street.
Yong also pointed out that several newspaper headlines yesterday made it appear that everything have been wrapped up between SAPP and other opposition parties in the state.
Some headlines pointed to the effect that STAR, SAPP and USNO have wrapped up their discussions and were now waiting to discuss with Pakatan Rakyat as a group.
Yong said that this was not accurate although the parameters have been laid out between STAR and SAPP. He pointed out that Usno is not a registered body and neither is Pakatan Rakyat.
"From what we read in the papers the coalitioh's members, PAS, PKR and DAP have their own respective individual negotiation panels. We are not aware of a Pakatan panel and these are issues that have to be straightened out.
“All this while negotiations were carried out with the individual parties' negotiating panels. Pakatan Rakyat is not registered while Pakatan Sabah does not have a committee. We do not know who to talk to in Pakatan as a whole.
"Therefore we have been talking to a number of leaders mainly in PKR, some in DAP, which was way back last year," he said.
To the question if SAPP has stopped negotiations with Pakatan Rakyat in Sabah, Yong replied, "we have not burned the bridges but we maintain the gate at the bridge."
According to him, it was important for SAPP to tell everybody in Sabah that DAP in their new manifesto, has talked about autonomy.
"But we have to tell them that with due respect, Malayan parties cannot talk about autonomy in Sabah. Malayan parties like DAP has no local standi, no right to talk about fighting about autonomy for Sabah. It is better for them to talk about national politics," Yong pointed out.
The Borneo Post
Monday, March 5, 2012
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SAPP tidak boleh bekerjasama dengan PKR kerana selalu menghasut rakyat untuk menolak parti semenanjung.
ReplyDeleteI don't think discussion will work out so well.
DeleteDisebabkan oleh UMNO-lah yang menyebabkan bukan sahaja ahli-ahli SAPP tetapi juga rakyat negeri Sabah untuk "menolak parti semenanjung".
DeleteThen be prepared to have BN/UMNO win again in this coming election.
DeleteSama ada SAPP boleh bekerjasama dengan Star ataupun tidak akan dibuktikan selepas ini. Masa dah semakin suntuk, PRU dah semakin hampir.
ReplyDeleteWe shall see how it goes. Hopefully they would be able to cooperate with each other.
Deletemula2 dengan UBF, terus PKR dan sekarang STAR pula. kita tengok SAPP ni berjaya untuk buat kerjasama dengan mana2 parti ataupun sebaliknya.
ReplyDeletetidak mungkin boleh bekerjasama. Kalaulah boleh, sudah pun bekerjasama. Tidak payah tunggu2.
Deletesebagai parti politik tempatan sepatutnya SAPP adalah parti yang benar2 sanggup berkorban untuk memperjuangkan hak dan kepentingan rakyat Sabah dan bukan untuk mencapai impian sendiri semata2.
ReplyDeleteSeems like STAR is poaching more and more parties for publicity purposes.
ReplyDeletePerbincangan yang nampaknya susah untuk dijangka.
ReplyDeletesaya tak fikir mereka boleh bekerjsama, masing2 hnya fikirkan kepentingan diri.
ReplyDeleteLook like SAPP may fight by itself without the cooperation from other oppositions parties in the next general election?? But now SAPP make discussion with STAR.
ReplyDeleteBaru berbincang. Belum adsa kata putus. Kalau setuju untuk kerjasama pun, akan datang mula menuding jari antara satu sama lain. Masing2 ada kepentingan mah.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that Sabah opposition parties can unite and cooperate easily because all their leaders has hidden agendas where all of them have a same dream to get Sabah cabinet posts..
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