On the contrary, UPP and Teras are not fully endorsed by the PM

suppadmin | June 6, 2015

UPP and TERAS, being BN friendly parties are only endorsed by the PM to play the role of cheerleaders to BN component parties in the coming state election, and not to field any candidates for BN seats.

Michael Tiang, the Secretary General for SUPP Pelawan, rebutted an earlier press statement made by UPP Bawang Assan Vice-Chairman Andrew Shiling that the Prime Minister who is also the national chairman of BN, had endorsed UPP’s status as BN Plus. Tiang reiterated that the noble intention of PM was to urge BN Plus parties to work together with BN parties and to support them in the coming state election.

If it was really PM’s intention to endorse UPP or TERAS as BN Plus and to allow their candidates to defend BN seats in the state election as exaggeratedly claimed by these BN friendly parties, then there wouldn’t be a need for PM to call UPP and TERAS as BN Plus. He would have just endorsed them as BN component parties. Yet the clear fact is that our PM only addressed UPP and TERAS as BN Plus.

Tiang stressed that UPP and TERAS will never be BN parties as according to BN constitution, it takes an unanimous vote from all BN component parties to adopt a new member party. And that did not happen and never will.

Tiang said, the intention of both PM and CM, which had been made clear in several occasions, is that UPP and TERAS being BN friendly parties, they would better be friendly and supportive towards BN election campaigns.

These BN Plus parties are not BN parties and therefore any public discussions on fielding candidates to replace BN candidates are to be seen as their phoney stand as BN friendly!

Tiang also reminded Andrew Shiling that it is not the figure of thousands of supporters he put up on the press that proves the ground support for UPP.

Tiang pointed out that according to the track records in the past, all SUPP election campaigns led by UPP chairman Wong Soon Koh in Sibu since 2010, BN lost miserably. The records showed that a grass roots support figure on the press is nothing more than a convenient political gimmick that was aimed not to lead, but to mislead.