{"id":23014,"date":"2018-10-09T16:13:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T08:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23014"},"modified":"2018-10-09T20:03:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T12:03:14","slug":"supp-central-youth-welcomes-federal-law-minister-to-amend-article-12-of-the-federal-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23014","title":{"rendered":"SUPP Central Youth welcomes Federal Law Minister to amend Article 1(2) of the Federal constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) called to Pakatan Harapan (PH)\u00a0cabinet to agree with Datuk Liew Vui Keong, the law minister\u2019s recent\u00a0statement that the federal government will seek to amend Article 1(2)\u00a0of the federal Constitution to restore both Sabah and Sarawak&#8217;s\u00a0position as equal partners in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>SUPP Central Youth Chief Michael Tiang said he welcomed the minister\u2019s\u00a0stance as he had shown his concerns for Sabah and Sarawak\u2019s rights and\u00a0position under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) and apparently as a\u00a0cabinet minister, Liew is willing to play his role in the Federal to\u00a0seek the restoration of both Sabah and Sarawak\u2019s position at soonest\u00a0possible.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that SUPP would give its full acknowledgement and support\u00a0to the minister\u2019s notion. It is always SUPP\u2019s stance that the party is\u00a0supportive of any federal policies and actions that are meant for the\u00a0benefits of Sarawak.<\/p>\n<p>Tiang\u00a0 reckoned that while Datuk Liew has displayed his political\u00a0courage in speaking up for Sabah and Sarawak, the stance and\u00a0performance by the 12 Sarawak Pakatan Harapan members of parliament,\u00a0which include 1 full minister and 1 deputy minister are such a letdown\u00a0to all Sarawakians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sarawak representatives in PH not only failed to speak up for\u00a0Sarawakians in the cabinet, worse still they even tried so hard to\u00a0persuade Sarawakians to accept the offered 20% oil profits, instead of\u00a0the promised 20% oil royalty. Our Sarawakian deputy minister Chong\u00a0Chieng Jen had clearly been assuring the people during the election\u00a0campaign that all PH component parties had already reached agreement\u00a0to return autonomy to Sabah and Sarawak, no further negotiations or\u00a0talks are needed if PH managed to take over Putrajaya. However, after\u00a0winning the general election, Chong\u2018s stance on what he had previously\u00a0promised Sarawak people to fight for Sarawak rights was either\u00a0ambiguous or remains on the silent note,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Tiang said that Liew, a Sabahan minister had given a fresh hope to\u00a0both Sabah and Sarawak people. Supp hopes that there won\u2019t be any\u00a0\u201cU-turns\u201d but a beginning of a series of actions the PH government is\u00a0going to undertake to restore both Sabah and Sarawak\u2019s position and\u00a0rights as equal partners in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also urge the PH government not to allow \u201cequal partners\u201d for\u00a0Sabah and Sarawak to be a mere title without substance. Therefore SUPP\u00a0demands the PH government to take the following steps to ensure Sabah\u00a0and Sarawak\u2019s equal partners status:<\/p>\n<p>(1) to increase Sarawak and Sabah\u2019s parliamentary representatives, at\u00a0least according to the ratio agreed in 1963 as well as to ensure Sabah\u00a0and Sarawak to have 1\/3 parliamentary representatives in the\u00a0parliament; and<\/p>\n<p>(2) to review all federal laws and policies which are contravening\u00a0MA63, particularly Territorial Sea Act 2012 and Petroleum Development\u00a0Act 1974 so as not to be enforceable in Sarawak as the Acts were\u00a0unilaterally and unconstitutionally passed to encroach onto the\u00a0autonomy of Sarawak without Sarawak\u2019s consent\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23015\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23015\" alt=\"SUPP Central Youth, Michael Tiang\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-261x300.jpeg\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-261x300.jpeg 261w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Image-891x1024.jpeg 891w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SUPP Central Youth, Michael Tiang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) called to Pakatan Harapan (PH)\u00a0cabinet to agree with Datuk Liew Vui Keong, the law minister\u2019s recent\u00a0statement that the federal government will seek to amend Article 1(2)\u00a0of the federal Constitution to restore both Sabah and Sarawak&#8217;s\u00a0position as equal partners in Malaysia. SUPP Central Youth Chief Michael Tiang said he welcomed the minister\u2019s\u00a0stance as he had shown his concerns for Sabah and Sarawak\u2019s rights and\u00a0position under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) and apparently as a\u00a0cabinet minister, Liew is willing to play his role in the Federal to\u00a0seek<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=23014\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23015,"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\/23014"}],"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=23014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23016,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23014\/revisions\/23016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}