Datuk Dr Stephen Rundi
SIBU: State Barisan Nasional (BN) secretary-general Datuk Dr Stephen Rundi says PKR will not have the cooperation of DAP in the coming state election.
“PKR is desperate knowing they will not get any cooperation from DAP. They will not be able to retain even their own seats of Batu Lintang, Krian and Ba Kelalan,” he said.
The Assistant Minister of Public Utilities (Electricity and Telecommunications) was reacting to media reports on
PKR having to start rolling out its state election machinery.
PKR Sarawak on Wednesday launched its ‘All for Sarawak’ election campaign logo that came with the slogan ‘A strong economy, a just society’.
“The roadmap is a mere ploy for the coming state election; nothing new to us,” Dr Rundi said.
Assistant Minister of Social Development Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, on the other hand, said PKR would shift into high gear whenever election was around.
Noting that PKR had started early in its preparation for the forthcoming state election, he said: “This is good as the people need to be informed of what they have to offer.
“But my clear observation is that PKR will only be active politically when the election is near. After that they will go into hibernation….until the next election comes.”
The Asajaya assemblyman said BN leaders and elected representatives, on the other hand, were always seen on the ground attending to people’s problems.
Meanwhile, SPDP senior vice-president Datuk Paul Igai said the party was well and truly ready in Meluan, which is one of the seats eyed by PKR.
He said it was PKR’s right to contest in any or all the 71 state seats.
“We know them well in Meluan and the voters are not easily hoodwinked,” Igai said.
PKR Kanowit secretary George Chen meanwhile believed that PKR could retain all its three seats in the coming state election.
“Maybe, we will be able to win more,” he added.
He said if previous state and parliamentary elections were anything to go by, there was a gradual increase of support for PKR across the state.
“Perhaps, the margin or percentage of losing will be getting narrower to the extent that five, 10 or 15 years from now, there will be a total change.
“When that happens, the two-party system will materialise,” Chen said.