{"id":7538,"date":"2015-08-16T20:54:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T12:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=7538"},"modified":"2015-08-16T23:05:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T15:05:49","slug":"supp-candidates-for-the-coming-state-election-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=7538","title":{"rendered":"SUPP: candidates for the coming State election identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) had already identified all its candidates for the coming State election with some already announced, said President of the party, Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim, who was speaking to reporters after the 3 hour Central Working Committee meeting at the party headquarters, said the incumbent will stay and in some areas, they will announce in the said constituency when the leaders go to the ground as what he did in Opar, Senadin and Engkilili. So far, he had named Robert Lau for Bawang Assan, Datuk Lee Khim Shim for Senadin and Dato\u2019 Francis Harden for Simanggang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaturally, in the incumbent seat, we will have the same candidate and in some areas, we have more than two potential candidates. The candidates must be people friendly and supported by the branches.\u00a0 Internally, the potential candidates were already notified and were told to go to the ground to work hard and service the people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>SUPP have 19 seats and Dr. Sim said not only will they have 19 as in case of the 11 new seats being legally approved, SUPP will get a share of the new seats.<\/p>\n<p>Before the commencement of the CWC meeting, senior SUPP members who were not in the CWC were presented.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sim said they were roped in to discuss on the coming election and the seniors were there to share the ideas and hear out the opinions of the CWC members.\u00a0 He said they discussed at length on SUPP safeguarding the rights of Sarawak. \u201cAs a Sarawak party, we will fight first for Sarawakians and for the State autonomy.\u00a0 SUPP is a people\u2019s party and the people must come first. The members must\u00a0 understand what our rights are and to go to the ground to explain to the people . It\u2019s SUPP for Sarawakians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on before the start of the press conference, the CWC members presented Dr. Sim with a birthday cake for his 50th birthday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7539\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150816_184517.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7539\" alt=\"Dr. Sim with his cake. On his right was secretary general, Dato\u2019 Sebastian Ting and CWC members.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150816_184517-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150816_184517-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150816_184517-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150816_184517.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sim with his cake. On his right was secretary general, Dato\u2019 Sebastian Ting and CWC members.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150816_184748.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7540\" alt=\"20150816_184748\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150816_184748-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150816_184748-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150816_184748-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150816_184748.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) had already identified all its candidates for the coming State election with some already announced, said President of the party, Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian yesterday. Dr. Sim, who was speaking to reporters after the 3 hour Central Working Committee meeting at the party headquarters, said the incumbent will stay and in some areas, they will announce in the said constituency when the leaders go to the ground as what he did in Opar, Senadin and Engkilili. So far, he had named Robert Lau<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=7538\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7540,"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\/7538"}],"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=7538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7538\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}