{"id":21740,"date":"2018-04-28T19:48:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T11:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21740"},"modified":"2018-04-28T21:07:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T13:07:19","slug":"leaders-from-two-parties-fighting-out-in-stampin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21740","title":{"rendered":"Leaders from two parties fighting out in Stampin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Two leaders from two nemesis parties are fighting it out in\u00a0Stampin.Chong Chieng Jen(Democratic Action Party ), state Assemblyman for\u00a0Sentosa who is also the Chairman of Sarawak Pakatan Harapan, will\u00a0tussle with President of Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP-BN),\u00a0Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian, the Minister for Local Government and Housing.\u00a0Sim, who is also the State Assemblyman for Batu Kawa.<\/p>\n<p>Both state seats of Batu Kawa and Sentosa falls under Stampin\u00a0constituency including Batu Kitang which is under SUPP Lo Khere\u00a0Chiang. Chong is a three-term State Assemblyman for Sentosa and a\u00a0three-term MP for Kuching.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2013 general election, Julian Tan(DAP) defeated SUPP\u2019s Yong\u00a0Khoon Seng in Stampin with a majority of 18,670 votes in a\u00a0constituency of 84,732 voters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Chong won Bandar Kuching that year with\u00a0a majority of 19,642 votes over SUPP\u2019s Tan Kai.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>With over 3500 supporters armed with banners, flags, hailers and\u00a0cardboard wordings showing their support to Dr. Sim, it was like a\u00a0huge party that has descended on the street infront of MPP. The row of\u00a0coffee shops was coated with a sea of supporters in yellow clothes,\u00a0the signature color of SUPP and a symbol of bees.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sim arrived\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">at 8.10 am<\/a>\u00a0to cheers and whistles and shouts of \u201chu-ha\u201d\u00a0the warrior cry of the Ibans.<\/p>\n<p><a dir=\"ltr\">At 9 am<\/a>, both the candidates and their families went to the MPP foyer\u00a0where there was courteous handshakes. Chong went into the nomination\u00a0centre first with his proposer Ku An Fah and seconder, Tan Kay Chee.<\/p>\n<p><a dir=\"ltr\">At 9.07 am<\/a>, Dr. Sim proposer, Lo Khere Chiang and Seconder Wilfred\u00a0Yap, handed in his nomination papers. \u00a0The nomination was closed at 10\u00a0am followed by an hour wait for any objections.<\/p>\n<p><a dir=\"ltr\">At 11.15 am<\/a>, Returning officer, Elizabeth Loh announced the candidates\u00a0&#8211; Dr. Sim was No 1 and Chong No 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-56.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21737\" alt=\"unnamed (5)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-56-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-56-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-56-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-25.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21735\" alt=\"unnamed (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-25-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-25-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-25-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21733\" alt=\"unnamed (3)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-31-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-31-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/unnamed-31-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two leaders from two nemesis parties are fighting it out in\u00a0Stampin.Chong Chieng Jen(Democratic Action Party ), state Assemblyman for\u00a0Sentosa who is also the Chairman of Sarawak Pakatan Harapan, will\u00a0tussle with President of Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP-BN),\u00a0Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian, the Minister for Local Government and Housing.\u00a0Sim, who is also the State Assemblyman for Batu Kawa. Both state seats of Batu Kawa and Sentosa falls under Stampin\u00a0constituency including Batu Kitang which is under SUPP Lo Khere\u00a0Chiang. Chong is a three-term State Assemblyman for Sentosa and a\u00a0three-term MP for Kuching.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21740\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740"}],"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=21740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21742,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740\/revisions\/21742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}