LABUAN: Peninsular-based Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) is looking to make inroads into the duty-free-island to expand its political influence here with the establishment its protem area.
Labuan Amanah protem committee chairman, Dr Ramli Tahir, said the party’s protem area now has 250 members with two branches established.
“We established the Amanah Labuan area on June 18, initially with 50 members as required by the party’ legislation (requirement), and we have two branches of Victoria Utara and Victoria Selatan,” he said, at a press conference before receiving new membership forms at the Dorsett Grand Labuan Hotel here yesterday.
The Amanah Labuan line-up is as follows: Protem chairman, Dr Ramli Tahir, deputy chairman, Lt (R) Wan Abdul Rahim, vice chairman 1, Zahari Mansor, vice chairman 2, Ahmad Razali Isnin, women chief, Dr Zunaidah Abdul Khannah, youth chief, Mohamad Fadhil, youth women chief, Hafizah Juman and secretary, Lt (R) Wan Abdul Rahim.
Dr Ramli said, Amanah would be working closely with other Pakatan Harapan component parties and members of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), DAP and Warisan here to highlight the people’s issues to the Federal government leaders.
“We believe that our political stand matches the Amanah’s political ideology, therefore, I feel that we can contribute, and importantly, we are sincere in joining the party without aiming for any post or anything like that,” he said.
Amanah Labuan area will be officially unveiled by Amanah Federal Territory secretary, Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli.