NOTHING PERSONAL: Sng (centre) with supreme council members George Lagong (left) and Josephine Mawat making his points.
KUCHING: Sarawak Workers Party (SWP) president Larry Sng said there was never such a thing as personal vendetta when the party declared its intention to contest only in the seats held by BN component party PRS.
He said the personal vendetta assumption was wrong simply because SWP “do not take politics personally”.
“When we want to contest in all the seats held by PRS we are not pursuing a personal vendetta. What we want to do is to provide better representation, better services to the people, and many other issues on the ground,” Sng told a press conference yesterday.
He had earlier chaired the party’s supreme council meeting at the party’s headquarters in Sebiro Holdings premises here.
Sng reiterated the party’s stance to contest in all the seats held by PRS, namely Julau, Selangau, Hulu Rajang, Lubok Antu, Sri Aman and Kanowit.
He claimed that SWP had already identified “credible and winnable” candidates for all the six constituencies, and was prepared and ready to face the election.
According to him, two names had been identified for each constituency for them to be assessed by the party.
He believed SWP would be able to deliver as it was a new party with a clean image and had new and young members.
Sng also seemed to side-step a question whether the party would replace PRS and join the Barisan Nasional (BN) if it won all the six seats.
SWP is BN-friendly party
“When we want to contest in the six seats, we intend to win, and like we always said we are BN- friendly.”
“SWP is friendly to Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), but unfortunately we are not too friendly with PRS.”
“We have not applied to join BN, and when the time comes, people will know the outcome.”
He went on to say that the party received positive and encouraging responses from the people from all the six constituencies, adding that the people were eager to know what the party stood for and the party leaders.
Sng was also asked to comment on rumours that SWP was supported by ‘unseen hands”.
“We all have hands here…I have hands here and what hands are you talking about?”
Pelagus assemblyman George Lagong, who was also present, chipped in that the reporter who had asked the question was probably talking about a “divine hands”.
Sng also brushed aside a question that by approving Meluan assemblyman Wong Judat membership, SWP was working with SPDP to ‘kill’ PRS.
“We never poached him (Wong) to join the party … we practise open door policy for the people, including former members in BN or the opposition to join us.”