PETALING JAYA: Sarawak DAP says it is nonsensical for Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) to demand the party give up its Sibu parliamentary seat, saying that an incumbent has a better chance of winning compared to a newcomer.
Its chairman Chong Chieng Jen said with the 15th general election expected to be held in a few months time, it would not make sense to have a newcomer facing off against the “might of the Gabungan Parti Sarawak’s (GPS) machinery”.
Furthermore, PSB had not disclosed the newcomer, Chong said.
Therefore, he said, PSB president Wong Soon Koh’s proposal “did not make good political sense”.
“It will only give GPS an upper hand and increase its chance of winning,” he said in a statement, referring to the ruling coalition.
“That should not be the aim of cooperation among the opposition parties, unless Wong has another agenda up his sleeve.”
On Sunday, Chong said that seat negotiations with PSB had reached a dead end after Wong said Sarawak DAP must “sacrifice” one parliamentary seat, a request which the former deemed unreasonable.
This led to Wong accusing Sarawak DAP of being unwilling to give up a seat.
Chong, however, said today such an accusation was misleading.
He said that the party was willing to give up some of the seats it contested in the last nationwide polls to other opposition parties, including PSB, if it meant increasing the opposition’s chance of winning.
Sarawak DAP held discussions in April on the possibility of cooperating with other opposition parties in Sarawak. - FMT
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