Dr Sim: Pujut seat for Barisan National

suppadmin | May 18, 2017

Only Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties can be a candidate for Pujut but those who wants to stand including the opposition parties who opted to stand under BN logo, should join Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) in order to hold an authentic ticket to contest.

Local Government Minister and Housing, Senator Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian, pointed out that SUPP would not compromise other than giving the seat to other BN component parties if SUPP was to give it up – as the seat traditionally belonged to BN. It was only passed on to UPP during the BN direct concept in the last election.

The seat does not belong to UPP. If UPP wants to stand, the candidate will have to resign from the party and only then be given the ticket to contest as a BN direct candidate. So they might as well join us

Dr. Sim said that under the BN principle, only candidates from BN component parties could contest under the BN ticket in any election.

On the potential candidates from SUPP, Dr Sim said the potential candidates initially picked in preparation for the next general election could be fielded to stand in the unexpected vacant Pujut seat.

He said they are waiting for the Election Commission (EC) to announce its decision on the vacant seat and had already preparing for the next general election and did not expect this (Pujut seat becoming vacant) to happen. Nevertheless, we will continue with our works on preparation and perhaps making some adjustments.

The Pujut state seat fell vacant after Dr Ting Tiong Choon was removed as the elected representative in a 70 to 10 vote from members of the house in favour of Second Finance Minister Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh’s ministerial motion.