Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Yong : Pointless voting for Pakatan

Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has reminded voters that under the Constitution of Sabah, only a political party with a majority of seats in the Sabah Legislative Assembly shall form the Sabah government.

“Unregistered parties and unregistered coalition of parties and NGOs are not qualified under the law to be elected as governments,” its president Yong Teck Lee said in a statement here.

The target of his reprimand is Pakatan Rakyat, the loose coalition of opposition parties and friendly groupings which remains an unregistered body.

Yong, who tried to seal an election pact with the Anwar Ibrahim-led Pakatan in order to reduce the field of contenders in next month’s election, said it would be a waste to vote for candidates fielded by the coalition for the state constituencies.

Yong reiterated that in order to fulfil its struggle for political autonomy, SAPP would contest a majority of state seats so that the Sabah government would be elected by the people of Sabah and answerable only to the people of Sabah.

“SAPP believes that this Barisan Nasional regime can be toppled through the ballot box at both the state and federal levels.

“Unlike Pakatan whose leaders have already conceded Sabah to the BN, SAPP believes that the Sabah BN government can be voted out on May 5.

“This has happened a few times in Sabah’s 50-year political history and can happen again on May 5, he said.

SAPP will contest 41 state and eight parliamentary seats.

Yong, a former chief minister, said in parliamentary and state seats not contested by the party, “SAPP will support the strongest opposition candidate who can beat the BN candidate”.

“As for the 41 state seats, 38 candidates will be announced tonight. The remaining three seats will be announced very soon pending a firm and clear picture of what STAR [State Reform Party] and other opposition parties plan to do.

“Our aim is that the BN must be defeated. We did not expect that the infighting between PKR/PAS/DAP to be so intensely divisive to the extent that the chances of the opposition in capturing the state seats concerned is now jeopardised.

“If we had known earlier that disarray within Pakatan would be so crippling, we would have made preparations to contest more state seats.

“We will reveal these seats in the next one or two days after we know the final outcome of the infighting between PKR/PAS/DAP,” he added. -FMT

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  1. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Walaupun tarikh penting 5 Mei belum berlalu, namun petanda bahawa SAPP akan berkubur bersama-sama agenda populis mereka semakin jelas kelihatan. Walaupun di beberapa jalan utama sekitar bandaraya Kota Kinabalu ini kelihatan ratusan bendera SAPP berkibaran seolah-olah melambai-lambai kepada orang awam supaya turun mengundi parti nyamuk ini, namun ianya masih belum cukup untuk memukau rakyat Sabah yang pernah melalui zaman pemerintahan Yong Teck Lee.

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  2. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Disebabkan pentadbiran Yong Teck Lee yang lebih banyak menceritakan tentang kegagalan berbanding dengan kejayaan, maka hari ini, Yong tidak ada pilihan lain bagi menaikkan populariti parti beliau melainkan menimbulkan isu-isu yang bersifat kenegerian.

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  3. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Jika diselusuri perjuangan SAPP sejak parti ini keluar dari gabungan Barisan Nasional, pasti semua rakyat sedar bahawa pemimpin-pemimpin SAPP lebih banyak bercerita mengenai keburukkan parti-parti lain berbanding dengan kejayaan Yong Teck Lee sepanjang beliau menduduki kerusi ketua menteri Sabah.

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  4. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Di musim pilihanraya seperti ini, sepatutnya pemimpin-pemimpin SAPP menggunakan peluang ini sebaik-baiknya untuk meyakinkan rakyat bahawa SAPP mampu mentadbir negeri ini lebih baik dari BN.

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  5. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Namun disebabkan tidak ada apa yang boleh dibanggakan sepanjang parti ini membentuk kerajaan, maka tidak heranlah jika pemimpin-pemimpin SAPP lebih selesa berkempen di seluruh pelusuk negeri Sabah dengan hanya bergantung pada isu-isu kenegerian yang belum tentu mereka mampu laksanakan.

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  6. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Selain ketiadaan isu yang lebih memihak kepada SAPP dan presidennya, parti ini juga terpaksa bergerak sendirian ekoran ketamakan Yong Teck Lee yang enggan berkompromi dengan parti pembangkang lain mengenai agihan kerusi.

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  7. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Malah, sejak kebelakangan ini, serangan SAPP lebih tertumpu kepada DAP berbanding dengan lawan sebenar mereka. Melihat kepada perkembangan ini, betullah kata para pemerhati politik bahawa kemunculan SAPP sebagai pembangkang pada PRU13 ini hanya sebagai "Pengacau Undi".

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  8. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Dengan rekod buruk pentadbiran Yong Teck Lee disamping kegagalan mengadakan kesepakatan dengan parti-parti pembangkang yang lain, sepatutnya Yong Teck Lee tidak perlu bersikap angkuh apabila pemimpin DAP menimbulkan spekulasi kononnya SAPP akan menyertai semula BN jika SAPP menang PRU13 ini.

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  9. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Kenyataan Yong Teck Lee kononnya SAPP tidak akan kembali semula kepada BN benar-benar menunjukkan sikap angkuh beliau seolah-olah BN terdesak mahu bersekutu dengan parti nyamuk yang sebelum ini hampir membankrapkan Sabah.

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  10. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Untuk pengetahuan Yong, SAPP bukan lagi "winnable party" bagi rakyat Sabah, sebaliknya menjadi makhluk perosak kepada negeri Sabah dan juga kepada mana-mana parti yang cuba dijadikan platform oleh SAPP untuk menaikkan populariti mereka.

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  11. SIKAP ANGKUH. EGO, SOMBONG DAN TAMAK YONG TECK LEE BAKAL JADI PUNCA KEJATUHAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH

    Ditambah pula dengan sikap Yong Teck Lee yang begitu tamakkan kuasa (jawatan Ketua Menteri) sehingga tergamak mengabaikan kerjasama yang dihulurkan Pakatan Rakyat sebelum ini. Semua ini akan menjadi pertimbangan rakyat untuk menguburkan SAPP pada pilihanraya umum kali ini dan seterusnya...

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  12. Sebanyak 70 anggota Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) di sini meninggalkan parti pembangkang itu untuk menyertai Umno selepas kecewa dan hilang kepercayaan terhadap parti tersebut.

    Anggota Jawatankuasa SAPP Beaufort, Saidi Kasni yang mengetuai kumpulan itu menyerahkan borang keahlian Umno kepada Ketua Wanita Umno Bahagian Beaufort Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun dalam majlis silaturahim bersama pemimpin yang diadakan di Kg Binunuk di sini semalam.

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  13. Azizah yang mengalu-alukan penyertaan mereka berkata keputusan anggota SAPP meninggalkan parti itu dibuat kerana mereka kecewa dengan pucuk pimpinan parti berkenaan yang tidak menepati janji.

    “Mereka tertarik dengan cara kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) menepati janji dan itulah yang menjadi kehendak mereka selama ini,” katanya ketika ditemui di sini.

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  14. Sementara itu, Saidi yang menganggotai jawatankuasa SAPP Beaufort sejak 2008 berkata beliau dan anggota yang lain kini sudah hilang keyakinan terhadap parti itu.

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  15. Beliau mendakwa SAPP tidak pernah prihatin terhadap nasib rakyat sebaliknya hanya pandai menabur janji kosong.

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  16. “Janji hendak beri bantuan itu, bantuan ini tetapi akhirnya yang tampil menghulurkan bantuan kepada kami hanyalah BN,” katanya.

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  17. A crowded contest is on the cards in Sabah in the 13th General Election.

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  18. Each of the 25 parliamentary and 60 state seats might see up to five candidates contesting although the main fight is only between Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat.

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  19. However, the local-based Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and the Sabah chapter of the State Reform Party (Star) may provide a certain measure of challenge in the Chinese and Kadazandusun dominated constituencies.

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  20. A multi-cornered contest is inevitable following the failure of the peninsula and local-based opposition parties to reach a compromise on a single candidate to take on the BN.

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  21. Instead of reaching a compromise, the discussion involving Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), DAP, Pas, SAPP led by Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee and Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan's Star ended on a bitter note.

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  22. In snubbing the SAPP and Star Sabah's overtures, PKR de-facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was reported to have described the two parties as "too small".

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  23. The SAPP and Star had declared "war" against PKR and DAP for their arrogance in looking down at the local opposition parties.

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  24. Their (Pakatan Rakyat) arrogance may prove costly to them as their attitude shows their lack of respect for the locals," Yong said.

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  25. The SAPP and Star Sabah Chapter are now exploring the possibility of cooperating in the election.

    "We may see an interesting three-way tussle between the BN, Pakatan and a coalition of local-based opposition parties.

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  26. There is also a possibility of PKR leaders not picked as candidates to team up with either the SAPP or Star.

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  27. Incumbent Datuk Raime Unggi will be defending his Tenom parliamentary seat according to Sabah BN chief Datuk Seri Musa Aman.

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  28. SAPP will contest 41 state and eight parliamentary seats.

    Dapatkah SAPP berjaya menambat hati dan mencapai kerusi yang berlebihan berbanding PRU12?

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  29. SAPP tidak sanggup kerjasama dengan parti lain.

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  30. Sebelas cawangan SAPP Tawau bubar selepas kira-kira 500 anggotanya meninggalkan parti itu beramai-ramai dan menyokong Barisan Nasional.

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  31. Antara mereka yang meninggalkan parti termasuklah Ketua Wanita SAPP Tawau yang juga Exco Wanita SAPP negeri Masja Hussin dan bekas Ketua Pemuda SAPP Tawau yang juga bekas Exco Pemuda SAPP Sabah Illiyassufyan Mohammad.

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  32. Menurut bekas Naib Pengerusi SAPP Tawau Mohammad Dahuk, mereka dengan rela hati beramai-ramai meninggalkan SAPP kerana kecewa dengan kepimpinan parti berkenaan yang didakwa gagal menepati janji kepada rakyat di Tawau dan menyokong BN bagi memastikan kemenangan besar pada PRU nanti.

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  33. Ketika majlis pengisytiharan pembubaran 11 cawangan Bumiputera SAPP Tawau dan kemasukan beramai-ramai ke dalam BN, selain membacakan ikrar menyokong BN, mereka turut menggunting dan mematahkan kad keanggotaan SAPP masing-masing sebagai simbolik mereka sudah tidak bersama parti berkenaan.

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  34. Masja berkata beliau meninggalkan SAPP kerana tidak yakin dengan keupayaan dan keikhlasan parti itu, khususnya di Tawau, untuk membela hak Bumiputera.

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  35. Beliau menasihatkan kaum Bumiputera yang masih berada dalam SAPP supaya meninggalkan parti berkenaan.

    “Kami tidak minta dihargai tetapi hormatilah hak kami, jangan kami diperalat dan dipergunakan,” katanya.

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  36. Seorang lagi bekas anggota SAPP, Siti Raddah Abdul Sani, 55, berkata beliau amat kecewa dengan kepimpinan SAPP khususnya di Tawau kerana gagal melaksanakan tanggungjawab membela rakyat yang memerlukan seperti beliau.

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  37. “Hari ini, walaupun kurang sihat kerana menghidap darah tinggi, saya gagahkan juga untuk hadir pada majlis ini sebagai tanda sokongan saya kepada BN,” kata Raddah yang berasal dari Batu 4, Jalan Apas.

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  38. Raddah mendakwa pemimpin SAPP hanya muncul apabila parti itu memerlukan bantuan mereka untuk memenangi pilihan raya namun gagal membantu rakyat yang memerlukannya selepas menang.

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  39. Kepada para pemimpin yang sudah dicalonkan di sesuatu kawasan, tunaikanlah tanggungjawab sebaiknya tanpa mengira waktu kerana di akhirnya nanti rakyat sendiri yang akan tentukan kedudukan anda, samada sudah laksanakan yang terbaik atau sebaliknya.

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  40. Voters in the Kadazandusun heartland were cautioned that a vote for Pakatan Rakyat is a vote for an unholy alliance.

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  41. United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (Upko) president Tan Sri Bernard Dompok, who is defending the Penampang parliamentary seat, said that if Pakatan comes into power, freedom of religion enjoyed today would be threatened.

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  42. "This is a secular country and there is a stone (Batu Sumpah) in Keningau that promises freedom of religion for Sabah and this must be allowed in the administration of the country," he told a cheering crowd at Hongkod Koisaan.

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  43. At a joint ceramah with Sabah United Party (PBS) president and Huguan Siou Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan, Dompok said with PAS being part of the Pakatan, there was a big chance that this country might become an Islamic state and hudud law imposed if the Opposition captured Putrajaya.

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  44. He said freedom of religion was enshrined in the Federal Constitution and people should think twice about this issue when casting their votes on May 5.

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  45. A Barisan government was still relevant and it should be allowed to continue its efforts to transform the country, he added.

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  46. Dompok said Barisan has listened to the wishes of Sabahans to have a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate the illegal immigrant problem in the state.

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  47. "It is going smoothly and the first point in our manifesto is to execute the solutions of RCI to solve this grave problem," he said.

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  48. Pairin, meanwhile, praised Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and urged the Kadazandusun community to stand behind his leadership.

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  49. He said all the Pakatan Rakyat party leaders - Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim of PKR, Abdul Hadi Awang and Nik Aziz Nik Mat of PAS and Lim Kit Siang - were clamouring to be Prime Minister.

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  50. "We do not know if Anwar will become Prime Minister if ever they manage to take over the government. The other leaders are also fighting to take the seat," said Pairin.

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