{"id":21830,"date":"2018-05-01T21:45:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21830"},"modified":"2018-05-02T19:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T11:55:21","slug":"dr-sim-importance-of-sarawak-having-a-one-third-representation-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21830","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sim:  Importance of Sarawak having a one-third representation in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian hoped that Sarawakians and Sabahans realise the importance of having a one-third representation in the Parliament and why Sabah and sarawak should have a share of it.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If Sarawak and Sabah do not have one-third representation, the states will lose their power to bargain for their rights from the federal government.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.5em;\">Dr Sim lamented that if Sarawak and Sabah do not have one-third representation and if Peninsular Malaysia goes all out for their own interest, the rights of Sarawak and Sabah will be gone and no one could do anything about it.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.5em;\">He called to all Sarawakians to think wisely and become united under the Barisan Nasional (BN).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; line-height: 1.5em;\">This was because only through BN who can help Sarawakians to fight for their rights and not through other parties which are not under the coalition.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/31518649_10155483761263133_4132614860741541888_n-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-21832\" alt=\"31518649_10155483761263133_4132614860741541888_n (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/31518649_10155483761263133_4132614860741541888_n-1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/31518649_10155483761263133_4132614860741541888_n-1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/31518649_10155483761263133_4132614860741541888_n-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian hoped that Sarawakians and Sabahans realise the importance of having a one-third representation in the Parliament and why Sabah and sarawak should have a share of it. If Sarawak and Sabah do not have one-third representation, the states will lose their power to bargain for their rights from the federal government. Dr Sim lamented that if Sarawak and Sabah do not have one-third representation and if Peninsular Malaysia goes all out for their own interest, the rights of Sarawak and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21830\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21832,"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\/21830"}],"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=21830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21833,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions\/21833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}