SERIAN, March 8 — Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) will not support a federal government if DAP is part of it, its chairman Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Openg said today.
He said he made this very clear when GPS was asked for its support on who should be the prime minister of Malaysia.
“Finally, our view was that we could not work with the DAP. It is that party that had claimed Sarawak would go bankrupt within three years,” he said in a town hall session in Gedong, about 30 kilometres from here.
“So I said how could we work with this kind of party which made such claim?” he asked, recalling what DAP secretary general Lim Guan Eng had alleged at a dinner in Kuching on June 21 last year that the state government would go bankrupt in three years’ time due to its large state budget.
Lim, who was then the federal finance minister, had said the state budget was RM11 billion while the state reserves was just RM30 billion.
He had said if every year the GPS spent RM11 billion, in three years’ time, there would be nothing left in the state’s coffer.
He had said if the state government was ruled by PH, then it was easier for it to work with the PH federal government, such as returning the status of Sarawak as an equal partner to Peninsular Malaysia, instead of being one of the states in Malaysia.
Abang Johari said the DAP, instead of working with GPS, made disparaging remarks against the state government.
“So I said I could not work with the DAP,” he said, explaining why GPS would not support the federal government if DAP is part of it.
Abang Johari also dismissed a clarion call from Sarawak DAP chairman Chong Chieng Jen for GPS to save the PH federal government from collapsing.
“The Sarawak DAP was asking us for help. Asking us to forget about the past.
“How can we forget the past?” he asked, referring to the allocations for bridge projects and water and electricity supplies which were cancelled by the PH federal government.
He said the state government leaders were not stupid and they knew how to look for funds for these cancelled projects.
“Now, it is God’s wish that the PH is out of power.
“There would not be any MPKKP (Federal Village Community Development Council) to be set up in Sarawak,” he said, adding MPKKP would cause disunity and break-up among the rural communities if PH was still in power.
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After much reflection, all this started with the PH Presidential Council of which Tun M, DS Anwar, Lim KS, Lim GE and others are member. They should all take responsibility for the mess as they and only they agreed just before GE14 as candidates (the treacherous MPs that had leap-frog away) and accepting Bersatu as partner of PH and now they are gone. And most knew what character they are of.
Like in the "so-called" western countries that are "democratic" and of principled people (that we all aspired to be), they - Tun M, DS Anwar, Lim KS, Lim GE should immediately resigned to take responsibility. Anything less is an affront to the voters that have voted for PH. And worse of all, they said they are not responsible and pointing fingers at everyone else except themselves - what a disgraced, a damn lousy example you all are setting, especially those that are writing apology for them.
Now is the time for the so call young progressive members (e.g Nurul, Wan Saiful, etc) of all these political parties to stand up and take over the leading from all these old leaders that are totally bankrupt of any new ideas to lead and of no moral standing whatsoever..
2020-03-09 09:34