{"id":21256,"date":"2018-03-20T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T06:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21256"},"modified":"2018-03-20T19:54:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T11:54:54","slug":"masing-upp-should-not-be-allowed-to-field-candidates-in-ge14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21256","title":{"rendered":"Masing: UPP should not be allowed to field candidates in GE14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president Tan Sri Dr James Masing called to Barisan Nasional (BN) leadership to allow Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) to contest its seven traditional seats in the upcoming 14th general election.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SUPP\u2019s breakaway United People\u2019s Party (UPP)\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">which is not a member the BN, has no right to contest using the coalition\u2019s symbol and, therefore, any UPP members who wish to be the candidates in the coming GE14 should join SUPP in order to qualify them to stand on BN ticket. They\u00a0should not be allowed to field candidates in any of the seven seats in GE14.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Masing, who is also the deputy chief minister, gave his full support to Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Openg\u2019s decision not to field direct candidates in GE14.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president Tan Sri Dr James Masing called to Barisan Nasional (BN) leadership to allow Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) to contest its seven traditional seats in the upcoming 14th general election. \u00a0 SUPP\u2019s breakaway United People\u2019s Party (UPP)\u00a0which is not a member the BN, has no right to contest using the coalition\u2019s symbol and, therefore, any UPP members who wish to be the candidates in the coming GE14 should join SUPP in order to qualify them to stand on BN ticket. They\u00a0should not be allowed to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21256\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21257,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21256\/revisions\/21257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}