No chance for UPP and Teras to join Barisan – CM

suppadmin | December 7, 2014

Going by the spirit of consensus which the Barisan Nasional (BN) subscribes to, there is practically no chance for the United People’s Party (UPP) and Parti Tenaga Rakyat Sarawak (Teras) to join the coalition.

This was confirmed by Sarawak Chief Minister and state BN chairman Tan Sri Adenan Satem, who said the BN had long adopted the rule that if any one component party objected to the admission of new parties, then “they (the new parties) cannot come in”.

“Not likely,” he responded to the media today when asked on the possibility of UPP and Teras being accepted into the state BN.

Adenan had earlier attended the opening of the triennial general assembly of the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) by Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy BN chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at the Bintulu Civic Centre.

Adenan said, however, that though the new parties could not join the state BN, it would not stop these parties, which claimed to be BN-friendly, to be part of the government.

Adenan, when asked to elaborate on what he had said in his speech about avoiding three-cornered fights in the next state elections, said that previously the elections would see contest among opposition, BN and independent candidates but now, with many political issues, the situation had changed and a split in the votes could affect the BN’s chances of winning.