{"id":21661,"date":"2018-04-24T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21661"},"modified":"2018-04-24T20:13:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T12:13:38","slug":"dato-sri-wong-soon-koh-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21661","title":{"rendered":"Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United People\u2019s Party (UPP) president Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh will step down after the current term.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced today by Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg, who said the state Barisan Nasional (BN) had named Wong\u2019s son Andrew, as the BN candidate for Sibu. \u200b<\/p>\n<p>His son has since joined SUPP.<\/p>\n<p>Abang Jo said all BN candidates are from the State BN component parties and there will be no direct candidate this round.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is happy that SUPP and UPP has come to an understanding.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/wongsoonkohuppmaymergewithsupp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21662\" alt=\"wongsoonkohuppmaymergewithsupp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/wongsoonkohuppmaymergewithsupp-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/wongsoonkohuppmaymergewithsupp-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/wongsoonkohuppmaymergewithsupp.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United People\u2019s Party (UPP) president Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh will step down after the current term. This was announced today by Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg, who said the state Barisan Nasional (BN) had named Wong\u2019s son Andrew, as the BN candidate for Sibu. \u200b His son has since joined SUPP. Abang Jo said all BN candidates are from the State BN component parties and there will be no direct candidate this round. He said he is happy that SUPP and UPP has come to an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21661\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21663,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661\/revisions\/21663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}