Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg
SIBU: Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) will consider accepting new parties into the coalition if three out of four component parties give the green light.
Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Abang Openg disclosed this when asked about his comment on the approval of GPS registration this afternoon.
He said this policy is unlike the one made by the Barisan Nasional in which new parties only be allowed to join through the agreement from all component parties.
“On the joining the coalition party, we have an agreement; if 3/4 agreed to accept new party, then we will consider the acceptance of other parties. In BN, it must be 100 per cent,” he said.
Abang Johari refused to give any further comment when asked whether United People’s Party (UPP) will be accepted, .
Meanwhile, during the winding-up speech for Budget 2019 in Dewan Rakyat today, Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced that the registration of Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) has been approved.
He said that the Registrar of Societies (RoS) would be issuing an official letter in the next few days.
Muhyiddin was responding to the question by Kapit MP cum GPS secretary-general Datuk Alexander Nanta Linggi who asked about the status of the coalition.
The member parties in the coalition included Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB), Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP), Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) and Progressive Democratic Party (PDP).