COMMENT:\u00a0There are no two ways about it, the coming state election will be a contest between local born and bred parties of the ruling BN coalition and opposition parties brought into the state from Malaya.<\/p>\n
The battle line has been drawn, Sarawakians going to the 11th\u00a0State\u00a0Election\u00a0will have to choose between voting for Sarawak BN, comprising Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), and Malayan parties namely, DAP and new-found partner Amanah, PKR and PAS.<\/p>\n
Chief Minister Adenan Satem is still looking for ways how to accommodate BN-friendly parties United People\u2019s Party (UPP) and Parti Tenaga Rakyat Sarawak (Teras).<\/p>\n
That he will find a formula to the problem before the polls is never in doubt; the state BN has a way of getting its members to swallow whatever is pushed down\u00a0their\u00a0throats \u2013 even pride.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like saying problems in BN are solved even before solutions are found. If the state BN leadership say they have the formula, it means they have the formula even though they don\u2019t have an inkling of what it is like. With the exception of Adenan, of course.<\/p>\n
In this aspect, the BN\u2019s kind of cooperation and understanding is unique, one that truly distinguishes the ruling coalition from parties that are being flown out of Malaya, each with its own agenda but all intent on filling the void created by a political system that gives people, including Malayans but through their local proxies, the right to take up position on the opposite side of the fence.<\/p>\n
In Sarawak, whether by commission or omission, the simple truth today is that the government is by the local parties and those opposing are parties exported from across the South China Sea.<\/p>\n
The divide, therefore, is as clear as, well, the South China Sea. On this shore are home parties; on the opposite shore are invaders, Sarawakians\u2019 loyalty to the state will be put to the test.<\/p>\n
How true is the slogan Sarawak for Sarawakians (S4S)?\u00a0 Do Sarawakians really feel strongly about their rights as provided for in the Malaysia Agreement 1963?<\/p>\n
How many Sarawakians truly share Chief Minister Adenan Satem\u2019s feeling that only Sarawakians understand Sarawakians and that non-Sarawakians cannot claim they know better about Sarawak and her people?<\/p>\n
The 11th state election will provide the answer to all these questions. It will be a measure of how far Sarawakians will want to concede their democratic rights to nationalisation.<\/p>\n
Yes, these parties from Malaya come peddling national politics. They don\u2019t want to be labelled as parties of Malayans but insist they are national parties.<\/p>\n
They come with the grand scheme of bringing Sarawak politics into the national arena because to them Sarawak will remain in the backwaters if Sarawakians continue to be parochial.<\/p>\n
Sarawakians will have to search it in their hearts to know what it is they really want or what it is that the Sarawak-born parties cannot give that the Malayan parties can.<\/p>\n
Those in the urban areas where the oppositions have found favour must begin to ask themselves: Have the Malayan parties lived up to their expectations? What have they done that their home parties have failed to do all those years?<\/p>\n
Sarawakians, urban and rural voters alike, must be honest with themselves whether or not it has been worthwhile voting out of anger and frustrations.<\/p>\n
Sarawak\u2019s polls issues are not about democracy, transparency and accountability. Neither 1MDB nor a donation of RM2.6 billion.<\/p>\n
Sarawakians who believe these, by all means vote the Malayan parties.<\/p>\n
But Adenan and company will be going into the state election impressing on Sarawakians their future lies in the devolution of powers he is seeking from Putrajaya, the autonomy that Prime Minister Najib Razak has vowed to give and the funds that the federal government has agreed to disburse to develop rural Sarawak.<\/p>\n
Adenan will be going to the polls, repeating to the people what he has been saying all along \u2013 that he stands for Sarawakians and that Sarawakians don\u2019t need Malayans and Malayan parties to tell Sarawakians what is good for them.<\/p>\n
If Sarawakians feel strongly for Sarawak, if S4S is no mere slogan, Sarawak will be saved from the marauding political forces of the invaders.<\/p>\n
Source From: www.theantdaily.com by Jimmy Adit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
COMMENT:\u00a0There are no two ways about it, the coming state election will be a contest between local born and bred parties of the ruling BN coalition and opposition parties brought into the state from Malaya. The battle line has been drawn, Sarawakians going to the 11th\u00a0State\u00a0Election\u00a0will have to choose between voting for Sarawak BN, comprising Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), Sarawak United People\u2019s Party (SUPP) and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), and Malayan parties namely, DAP and new-found partner Amanah, PKR and PAS. Chief Minister AdenanRead 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\/7717"}],"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=7717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7718,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7717\/revisions\/7718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}