SEMPORNA: Warisan has decided not to contest in the six state elections to be held in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Penang, Kelantan, Kedah and Terengganu.
Party president Shafie Apdal said Warisan would focus on strengthening its position in Sabah. The party won 14 seats in the state assembly in the 2020 state elections.
He said he had informed party members that Warisan have one state assemblyman in Peninsular Malaysia (Selangor assemblyman Bryan Lai) and I have advised them to help and not to contest. They accepted it well.
“I also met Ong Tee Keat in Kuala Lumpur, who (previously) contested the Pandan parliamentary seat. I also advised him (not to contest),” he told reporters here today.
Selangor Pakatan Harapan leader Amirudin Shari said recently that leaders of the six states had agreed to dissolve their respective state assemblies in the last two weeks of June to pave the way for elections.
In the general election last November, Warisan contested a total of 52 seats, comprising 25 in Sabah, one in Labuan, and the rest in West Malaysia.
Shafie said Warisan would consider any request from other parties for cooperation at the next state elections in Sabah, which are due only in 2025.
He hopes the state government will table a motion on an anti-hopping bill at the Sabah state assembly so that a law can be created to teach a lesson not only to ‘party hoppers’ but also to the party that accepts them.
“If the state government does not have the ability to table the bill, I have a ‘private bill’ that we can table and we will ask everyone to give their support,” he said. - FMT
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