(The Star) - KOTA KINABALU: Although labelled a mosquito party, the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) will be going for at least 40 seats and challenged DAP to face it in half of these seats in the general election.
“DAP should contest at least 20 seats if it is strong. If it can't, it might as well not contest,” SAPP president Datuk Yong Teck Lee said at a ceramah here.
He said DAP had been boasting about its strength and if it believed in its own rhetoric about its performance in Penang, DAP should go for more seats in Sabah.
“We in SAPP, despite being labelled a parti nyamuk (mosquito party) will go for 40 seats at least,” said Yong, in an apparent reference to the seat sharing of 85 parliamentary and state seats in Sabah among candidates from DAP, PKR, PAS and two independents Datuk Lajim Ukin and Datuk Wilfred Bumburing .
Besides the two men, both former Barisan Nasional MPs, the three parties in the Opposition front will get between 10 and 14 seats each.
Yong said DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang had conceded the three peninsula-based parties would not be able to win Sabah. Home-grown SAPP is not part of the electoral pact.
“If there is no confidence about winning (in Sabah), why contest?” asked Yong.
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