KUCHING: Batu Lintang assemblyman See Chee How, who left Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) to become an independent last weekend, said he is prepared to face legal action from his former party.
See said although he hoped to continue having a good relationship with PSB and its leaders, he was not ruling out the possibility of being sued for his decision.
The three-term assemblyman said his legal team would be ready for such an eventuality.
PSB president Wong Soon Koh had said on Sunday the party would avail itself of all available remedies against See, whom he claimed had made an oral and written undertaking before being chosen as PSB’s candidate in the last state election.
According to Wong, See had to compensate the party if he chose to resign after winning the seat on a PSB ticket.
See had said his decision to leave PSB was to free himself from party politics to spend more time on his work as an assemblyman and to work with others, including NGOs, who shared his mission for a better Sarawak.
He also said his decision had nothing to do with the anti-hopping law to be enforced soon, or to form a new party and that he was not interested in contesting in the upcoming general election.
See first won the Batu Lintang state seat in the 10th Sarawak election in 2011 as a PKR candidate and successfully defended the seat in the following election in 2016, before switching to PSB to win for the third time in the state election last year. - FMT
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