PCS president given authority to negotiate with other opposition parties

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KOTA KINABALU: Parti Cinta Sabah (PCS) president Datuk Seri Panglima Wildred M. Bumburing has been given the authority to negotiate with Parti Warisan Sabah, Pakatan Harapan (PH)  and other like-minded opposition political parties in forming an election pact to face off with Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) in the coming 14th general election.

The PCS Supreme Council members voted on this unanimously at a meeting but they have set the following conditions.

Firstly, no one political party must contest more than 50 per cent of the total number on state seats contested considering that a possible coalition of more than four opposition political parties can be formed.

This coalition of opposition political parties must emulate the sharing formula adopted by the PH coalition in Peninsular Malaysia where no one party is allotted more than 50 per cent of the total number of parliamentary seats.

Any political party wishing to contest more than 50 per cent of the total state seats would be no better than Umno which currently hold 31 seats, said Bumburing in a statement yesterday.

“Secondly, although all the opposition parties are riding on a multi-racial concept of political wave-length; however, the voting trend of the voters must be duly considered in which voters tend to cast their vote based on racial lines; it is therefore envisaged that political parties select their seat constituency along these perspectives,” he added.

After the Supreme Council meeting which was also attended by divisional leaders who are not supreme Council members, the exco members of the Youth and Wanita joined the main group to launch the party’s ‘crowdfunding’ project website at www.pcsabah.com.

Bumburing said during the launching 20 donors initiated the donation drive.

The slogan selected for the crowdfunding is “Stop the Rat: Its Corrupts.”

“The slogan is taken based on the definition given by Google as ‘people who are despicable, especially a man who has been deceitful or disloyal. The synonym for RAT according to Google is: scoundrel, wretch, rogue, bastard, creep, louse, snake’ and many more. We are faced with system that resembles all these and our mission is to stop this system as it corrupts.”