Jeffrey, Yong fail to settle seats issue

Both disagreed with each other's presumed strength in
many Kadazandusun areas, where both want to break into.
By Luke Rintod of FMT
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah-based opposition party leaders Yong Teck Lee and Jeffrey Kitingan were in discussions last night in a last- ditch effort to stitch together a pact to give Sabah voters a clear choice between a local opposition front and a peninsula-based one.

But the two pivotal figures in Sabah’s opposition power play, however, again failed to reconcile their overlapping claims for Sabah parliamentary and state seats.

According to sources, the secrecy surrounding the meeting caused some delay in the arrival of representatives – from both parties – at the rendezvous point in the city.
When it was finally held, both Yong and Jeffrey, however, disagreed with each other’s presumed strength in many Kadazandusun areas, where both want to break into.

According to the sources, apart from the two, others at the meeting were SAPP deputy president Amde Sidek, STAR state secretary Guande Kohoi as well as former Upko leader now with STAR, James Ligunjang.

Yong claims his Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) has more clout than Jeffrey’s State Reform Party (STAR) in some of the state seats he is pursuing.

Insiders, who claimed some knowledge of the meeting, said STAR and SAPP appeared to clash in five (of the total 25) parliamentary seats and as many as 13 of the 60 state assembly seats, all Kadazandusun areas.

The failure to narrow their differences last night echoed the results of previous meetings.

Both temporarily abandoned the talks towards the end of last year at a time when Yong was keenly pursuing a pact with peninsula-based PKR, the de facto leader of the main opposition front, Pakatan Rakyat, that also groups PAS, DAP and a smattering of “friendly” local groupings.

Pakatan has rejected SAPP’s demands to contest in more than half of the 60 state seats in Sabah on the basis that SAPP was too ambitious.

Counter proposal

STAR, on the other hand, stayed out of the negotiations with Pakatan and remained adamant that peninsula-based parties should not contest in Sabah.

Observers noted that had SAPP-Pakatan negotiation been fruitful, Yong would have gone on with it, minus STAR.

As such, the younger leaders within STAR continue to view Yong with suspicion..

But there are others within STAR who see Yong as bolder and more decisive compared to Jeffrey, who is perceived as “indecisive”.

Sources from both parties also said that Yong had brought a new bargaining chip to the table.

This involved SAPP taking the majority of the state seats and letting STAR concentrate in almost all of the 25 parliamentary seats “since Jeffrey is very interested to be a king-maker”, said one insider.

While Jeffrey is expected to explore the offer, it may be too late for STAR to get into such arrangement as many of its own potential candidates would be in a quandary having resigned from government posts in anticipation of contesting under STAR for state seats.

Many in STAR are also weary with Jeffrey’s personal stand on the offer, especially after he recently declared that STAR was not interested in the chief ministership but in the Borneo Agenda.

SAPP, on its part, has yet to shake off its Chinese party image and be recognised as an “open community” party.

‘Jeffrey must be decisive’

Meanwhile, a STAR leader, when contacted by FMT, said: “Jeffrey cannot play open all the time… he must be decisive or we will be trapped in our own miscalculations. This is a cut-throat politics and we are dealing with exceptionally ambitious people.”

“Jeffrey has neither rejected Yong’s gambit nor has he brought it up at a STAR meeting so far,” he said.

The STAR’s top leadership is meeting in Keningau tonight where Jeffrey is expected to brief his lieutenants of what transpired at last night’s meeting.

Both SAPP and STAR are driven by the same political strategy: both want “local government” for Sabah. Last night’s meeting was seen as a final roll of the dice to out-manoeuvre both the BN as well as Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan.

Both Yong and Jeffrey insist that only state-based political parties should replace the Umno-led BN government.

But SAPP has adopted a softer tone and contends that peninsula-based parties should only have a minority role in the state government and as such, should not contest for more than a handful of state assembly seats, with the trade-off being parliamentary seats in Sabah.

STAR, however, maintains that all peninsula-based parties should leave both parliamentary and state seats to Sabah parties altogether.

The rationale being that there are 165 parliamentary seats and around 400 state seats up for grabs in the 11 states in the peninsula and Pakatan should focus on this.

104 comments:

  1. UNITE TO FIGHT THE COMMON ENEMY- MALAYAN COLONIALISM!

    We urge STAR and SAPP to try harder. You must compromise- share equal power 12/12. The extra seat should be a casting vote shared by both parties.

    Anyone got a better idea?

    For Sabah's sake do it just to win the elections and secure Sabah in Sabah hands.

    If you don't the people will suffer and endure UMNO colonial rule and plunder for another 50 years!

    At this stage there are no other parties that can save Sabah. The task has fallen on STAR and SAPP.

    Pity Sarawak!

    So the future of Sabah is in your hands- please don't mess it up.

    We appeal to STAR & SAPP to unite and save Sabah from falling deeper into foreign hands!

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    1. SAPP sukar bekerjasama dengan mana-mana parti. Sudah terbukti mereka ni terlalu ego.

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    2. SAPP menpuyai agenda sendiri, mana mungkin mereka dapat bekerjasama dengan parti pembangkang lain.

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  2. INI BUKTINYA KEDUA2 PEMIMPIN SABAHAN DIATAS TERLALU TAMAK, PENTINGKAN DIRI SENDIRI DAN TERLALU MENGIDAM JAWATAN KETUA MENTERI SABAH..

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    1. Semua pemimpin pembangkang mengidamkan jawatan Ketua Menteri Sabah, maka menjadi sukar untuk mereka mencapai persepakatan.

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    2. Kedua-dua pemimpin pembangkang ini mempuyai agenda sendiri dalam mencapai cita-cita mereka.

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  3. PERKEMBANGAN TERBARU INI ADALAH BERITA BAIK UNTUK BN DAN BERITA BURUK UNTUK PEMBANGKANG SABAH.. SUDAH TENTU "MULTIPLE CORNERED FIGHT" TIDAK DAPAT DIELAKKAN..

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    1. Perang banyak penjuru akan menyebabkan undian berpecah bagi pihak pembangkang.

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    2. BN pasti akan menang besar pada pRU ini.

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  4. NAMPAKNYA PEMBANGKANG TIDAK PERNAH BELAJAR DARI KESILAPAN TERUTAMANYA KES PRK BATU SAPI..

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    1. Masa pilihanraya kecil Batu Sapi, PKR meminta SAPP jangan bertanding, tapi SAPP mahu juga. Akhirnya dua-dua parti kalah.

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    2. Rasanya sejarah akan berulang dimana pembangkang akan kalah bila bertanding dalam perang pelbagai penjuru ini.

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    3. Itu sebab pembangkang hanya mementingkan diri sendiri, apa yang mereka buat, bukannya untuk rakyat.

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  5. JIKA BEGINILAH KEADAAN PEMBANGKANG SABAH, BAIK LUPAKAN SAJA IMPIAN MAHU MEMERINTAH NEGERI INI.. LAGIPUN PENTADBIRAN BN SUDAH CUKUP BAIK BERBANDING DENGAN 4 BUAH NEGERI YANG DIPERINTAH OLEH PEMBANGKANG..

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  6. The 13th general election is heading for a multi-cornered fight in nearly all seats with the Opposition unable to hammer out a deal in Sabah.

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  7. The squabbling between national and local Opposition parties make one-on-one contests unlikely, and this is expected to give Barisan Nasional a stronger hand in retaining Sabah.

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  8. Talks between local-based Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) headed byDatuk Yong Teck Lee and Sabah STAR led by Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitinganwith Pakatan Rakyat are bogged down.

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  9. All indications show that SAPP and Sabah Star will likely do a deal to push the Sabah agenda while Pakatan Rakyat with its local-based allies Tuaran MP Datuk Wilfred Bumburing and Beaufort MP Datuk Lajim Ukinwill go it alone for the 60 state and 25 parliament seats.

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  10. “Pintu sudah tutup tapi belum kunci (The door is closed, but not yet locked),'' Bumburing said yesterday, hinting that PKR, DAP and PAS under Pakatan will work with him and Lajim.

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  11. Bumburing said that traditionally Sabah voters have chosen between only two parties.

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  12. “The choice this round is between Barisan and Pakatan,'' he claimed, adding that he did not believe that Sabah-based parties would make a dent.

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  13. When contacted, Dr Jeffrey, whose party is being approached by a Sabah DAP leader, said that a free-for-all was on the cards but there were talks to ensure “one-on-one'' fights in 12 of the 25 parliamentary seats.

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  14. “We are okay with the idea of a pact for certain parliament seats,'' said Dr Jeffrey, whose party has called for the national opposition to stay out of Sabah.

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  15. “We are ready (to go it alone) irrespective of any seat arrangement,'' said Dr Jeffrey, whose party has teamed up with the unregistered Usno Baru under the Borneo Alliance.

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  16. BN government seems to have stronger hand in retaining Sabah, the people of Sabah are fully in support of the government as well. Sabah voters know what is good for them and what they would benefit from the government.

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  17. STAR, on the other hand, stayed out of the negotiations with Pakatan and remained adamant that peninsula-based parties should not contest in Sabah. Observers noted that had SAPP-Pakatan negotiation been fruitful, Yong would have gone on with it, minus STAR. As such, the younger leaders within STAR continue to view Yong with suspicion.

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  18. Sources from both parties also said that Yong had brought a new bargaining chip to the table.

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  19. According to sources, the secrecy surrounding the meeting caused some delay in the arrival of representatives – from both parties – at the rendezvous point in the city. When it was finally held, both Yong and Jeffrey, however, disagreed with each other’s presumed strength in many Kadazandusun areas, where both want to break into.

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  20. A STAR leader, when contacted by FMT, said “Jeffrey has neither rejected Yong’s gambit nor has he brought it up at a STAR meeting so far,” he said.

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  21. Sabahan masih menyokong kuat BN jadi biarpun YTL dan DJK ni berusaha keras macam susah juga mahu rampas kedudukan BN di Sabah.

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    1. YTL dan DJK, dua pemimpin pembangkang yang hanya memberi janji kosong kepada rakyat.

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  22. Sukar untuk pembangkang menang kerana undi pecah. Lihat sajahlah nanti pasti BN juga tu yang akan jadi pilihan ramai.

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  23. Sesama pembangkang pun tidak ada kerjasama tapi ada pula hati nak memerintah Sabah. hehe

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  24. Rakyat patut buat pilihan yang bijak. Memang ia hak kita untuk mengundi siapa saja yang kita nak pilih namun pastikan jangan tersalah pilih pula.

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  25. I don't think they can work it out.

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  26. Can judge from the way they treat each other.

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  27. Persengketaan yang makin menjadi.

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  28. PRU bakal berlangsung bila-bila saja, so rakyat terutamanya pengundi haruslah fokus dengan pilihan masing-masing dan jangan mudah terpengaruh dengan mana-mana pihak.

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  29. Dua orang ni tak ble pakai.

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  30. Bodoh tak siuman memang macam ni.

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  31. South Korea's Psy will perform his famous Gangnam Style dance at an event organised by Malaysia's ruling coalition, an official said on Sunday, as the bloc tries to attract young voters ahead of polls.

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    1. Psy will perform the hit, which made history as the most-watched video on YouTube, at a Chinese New Year party on the island of Penang on Feb 11, said Loh Hock Hun from the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA).

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    2. The organisers hope to attract some 60,000 people including Prime Minister Najib Razak, Mr Loh said. He could not say how much the concert, to be staged by the Barisan Nasional coalition of which the MCA is a part, would cost.

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    3. Some 25 per cent of Malaysia's 29 million people are ethnic Chinese and celebrate the lunar new year.

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    4. Mr Najib, who must face tough elections by June at the latest, hopes to improve on his coalition's worst ever poll performance in 2008. Those aged below 40 make up 40 per cent of the electorate.

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    5. In 2008, the coalition lost its traditional two- thirds parliament majority and control over five states, including Penang, to a resurgent opposition amid voter complaints that Barisan Nasional leaders seemed too aloof and corrupt.

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    6. South Korean pop music is popular in Malaysia with a recent show - the annual Golden Disk Awards, featuring performances by Super Junior and other acts - drawing thousands of fans.

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    7. Psy, who is slated to perform in Brazil's carnival celebrations next week, is also expected to take the stage in Malaysia in March for a music show at the Sepang International Circuit racetrack.

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    8. Psy made Internet history in December when his Gangnam Style - featuring his signature horse-riding dance - clocked more than one billion views on YouTube.

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  32. Sudahlah PKR sedang berkecamuk dengan perpecahan dari pemilihan parti. Anwar pula masih sibuk untuk cari pentas untuk memeutarbelit dan bermain persepsi untuk membersihkan dirinya.

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  33. Bertambah hari bertambah kurang kepercayaan orang terhadap penafian Anwar yang tidak berjubor kononnya. AMK sudah menuntut Anwar bertaubat. Dengarnya orang PAS pub sudah mula tak percaya.

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  34. Taiko Yong tahu masaalah PKR dan marah bila mendengar maklumat ini. Dia menyuarakan bahasa2 kesat.

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  35. Itu pasal Yong sendiri mahu bertanding. Jangan lupa Yong tersangkut dengan pujuk rayu Anwar untuk keluar dari BN pada Sept 16 2008. Dah sedap2, tiba2 dia kini dalam political wilderness.

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  36. Memanglah dia marah kerana diketepikan Tun Abdullah dari bertanding pada Mac 2008. Tak sangka dia kini tersangkut disebabkan kemarahannya. Kita tunggu dan lihat sejauh mana kemarahannya dengan Anwar ...

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  37. Masalah Anwar ni, dia lidah bercabang. dia janji bermacam janji kat sesiapa pun, hanya untuk manfaat diri sendiri

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  38. Sekarang ni, UMNO dah bersatu di bawah Najib. kalau pertelingkahan kecil di bawah, biasa lah, tapi secara rata, mereka sudah bersatu

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  39. Kesian penyokong PR ni - mereka ditipu oleh anwar - tulah senang sangat percaya janji manis.

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  40. Bila Tun Dr M berkata yg benar tapi pahit, tak mahu terima.

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  41. Bila Tun Dr M berkata yg benar tapi pahit, tak mahu terima.

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  42. Kan kena batang hidung sendiri, madu dijanji, racun diberi ala "we have the numbers", "putrajaya on 16 sep - which year - donno"

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  43. Sedarlah penyokong PR - anwar ni memang bekas BANDUAN salah guna kuasa, korupsi dan peliwat.

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  44. In terms of policies and key personal, deciding who is better prepared to govern Malaysia after GE13 is a no-brainer. Barisan Nasional has a vision for the next decade, while Pakatan Rakyat won't release a manifesto.

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  45. BN has an experienced team in place, while Pakatan won't name a shadow cabinet for fear of starting a civil war. The gulf between the two sides is so wide that it almost defies comparison.

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  46. But policies and personnel aside, where do they stand in terms of organisation and discipline, which goes a long way to determining whether they can meet the expectations of voters by providing a stable, lasting government? This is the machinery, as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak likes to call it.

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  47. To undertake this comparison we have to go back to the Umno General Assembly of November 2011. It was hugely significant, not just because this was the first time Najib spoke of winnable candidates at GE13, but because he imbued his ranks with fighting talk and the importance of discipline.

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  48. After the dark days of Badawi's premiership, Najib wanted his members to think not just in terms of damage control from the GE12 result, but emphatically reversing the decline. Winnable candidates and a disciplined party can win any state, he told them. It was a bold pitch.

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  49. He also spelt out how much Umno and indeed, BN would have to be reformed in order to remain relevant to voters. As Najib announced that a number of older representatives would be put out to pasture, he asked them for a final gesture: to not sabotage their party on the way out the door. This is what true party discipline is all about – loyalty to the end.

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  50. In fact, party discipline has been a triumph of Najib's leadership. Last year a lone Umno assemblyman broke ranks to call for hudud. What is significant is not his random comment, but how quickly he was pulled into line. He didn't repeat the remark and crucially, no-one actually believed he represented a body of opinion within Umno. So random was this outburst that Pakatan Rakyat's lame attempt at scoring points on the matter came to nothing.

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  51. It's safe to say that within BN there are many individuals who disagree with their parties on a range of issues. What is significant isn't that they have their own opinions, but that they don't express them and damage their collective cause in the process. Under Najib, BN party discipline is second to none.

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  52. On Friday Najib declared Umno's machinery to be in its final phase of preparation. "We have received the audit report on our machinery and from there I can say our preparation is satisfying," he said. "At the same time I hope the efforts to strengthen our preparations will continue to be carried out by leaders at the state level."

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  53. He also said the disciplinary committee has been assigned the task of cleansing the party of elements that could sabotage its polls preparations.

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  54. Remember too, all BN candidates have been successfully vetted by the MACC ahead of GE13. There'll be no nasty surprises as we get closer to polling day. So what of Pakatan Rakyat, which refused point blank to have its candidates vetted by the MACC?

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  55. Over on Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's side of the fence it's not a matter of who breaks ranks but who doesn't, even as far as publicly calling for another man to be Prime Minister instead of Anwar.

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  56. Unlike Najib's discipline committee, the likes of Nasharuddin Mat Isa and others who call for hudud from within PAS don't fear being rebuked by Anwar. This is in part because they know he couldn't frighten a teddy bear.

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  57. PAS is like a free expression drama class where anyone pretty much says what they want, knowing the party leadership is too weak or old to do anything. Just look at the ceaseless attacks on DAP's Karpal Singh over the hudud issue and the attacks on Lim Guan Eng over the "Allah" issue.

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  58. These PAS members couldn't stand to be in the same room as the reviled Chinese party let alone the same government and increasingly they don't care how many voters know this. Again last week there was an organised, placard-waving PAS protest against DAP over the "Allah" issue.

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  59. The bottom line is that if voters elect a Pakatan government there is a very real threat of it falling apart within weeks. Anwar & Co seem to be operating on the idea that discipline and common ground is something that can be sorted out when they get to Putrajaya. Unfortunately for them, it doesn't work like that.

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  60. Pembangkang di Sabah menghadapi krisis serius menyebabkan Pakatan Rakyat (PR) telah secara rasmi mengeluarkan Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) pimpinan Datuk Yong Teck Lee dari rundingan kerusi lapor Malaysian insider yang memetik kenyataan daripada Timbalan Presiden PKR, Azmin Ali.

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  61. Di peringkat negeri, kata Azmin, Pakatan hanya berunding pembahagian kerusi dengan dua sekutu baru iaitu Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS) dan Pertubuhan Pakatan Perubahan Sabah (PPPS). APS diketuai oleh Ahli Parlimen Tuaran, Datuk Seri Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing, manakala PPPS diketuai oleh ahli parlimen Beaufort Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin.

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  62. Azmin mendakwa SAPP dikeluarkan kerana meminta kerusi tidak munasabah diperingkat negeri iaitu antara 40 atau separuh daripada 60 kerusi negeri.

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  63. Apabila ditanya apa tawaran PR kepada SAPP, Azmin mengatakan PR bersedia untuk memberikan 10 kerusi kepada parti berasaskan Sabah itu. Beliau menambah ia adalah “kerusi bagus” dimana SAPP akan bertanding dan mempunyai peluang cerah untuk menang, tetapi parti tersebut menolak tawaran itu.

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  64. APS dan PPPS turut dilaporkan telah bersetuju untuk bertanding menggunakan bendera PKR dalam pilihan raya akan datang. Portal itu turut mendakwa Bumburing telah ditugaskan untuk menguruskan kerusi Kadazandusun dan Murut (KDM) manakala Lajim pula ditugaskan untuk mendapatkan sokongan Melayu dan Islam.

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  65. Kedua-dua pemimpin itu baru-baru ini menjadi sasaran serangan mulut dari Yong, pada Selasa lalu memanggil mereka sebagai kerbau yang dicucuk hidungnya. Yong menuduh Bumburing dan Lajim “tidak mempunyai pilihan” selain kowtow kepada rakan baru PR mereka dari Semenanjung untuk melobi kerusi dalam pilihan raya akan datang.

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  66. Krisis bertambah buruk apabila Winnie Juani, yang merupakan Naib Pengerusi Wanita PKR Sabah, ketua sayap Penampang isytiharkan diri keluar dari PKR Khamis lalu bersama 13 lagi pemimpin bahagian.

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  67. Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan yang sebelum ini keluar dari PKR dan mengetuai Parti Pembaharuan Negeri (STAR) turut dipinggirkan daripada rundingan pembahagian kerusi PR itu.

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  68. Indeed they are fail to settle seats issue.

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  69. Seat allocation among the oppositions have problems.

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  70. Pakatan Rakyat and Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) have ended their recent months of courtship with two top Parti Keadilan Rakyat leaders saying that “we will go separate ways.”

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  71. PKR deputy-president Azmin Ali and vice-president Tian Chua made it clear that there will be no more negotiations with SAPP president Datuk Yong Teck Lee for a seat-sharing pact to confront Barisan Nasional in a one-to-one fight in the general election.

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  72. Tian Chua described SAPP's continued demands for a large share of state seats during negotiations as “unreasonable and reflects their insincerity and commitment towards an Opposition pact to oust Barisan in Sabah.

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  73. “If SAPP maintains that they must be given a large share of the seats which makes it impossible for an agreement to be reached, we can only interpret it as their not being interested in the cooperation.

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  74. “This means we have to go separate ways,” he told a press conference .

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  75. Tian Chua dismissed the possibility of the opposition losing the support of Sabah voters if local-based SAPP was excluded from the Pakatan pact as he believed it would have minimal impact on them.

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  76. “In the coming polls, the people will choose between Barisan and Pakatan.

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  77. “Any other force will not have any substantial impact on the choice of the voters,” he said.

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  78. He said that Pakatan was willing to work with any party in Sabah to remove Barisan from Putrajaya.

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  79. “Pakatan parties are willing to cooperate with all forces if they are genuinely committed to our common struggle to topple Barisan,” he added.

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  80. Tian Chua's public stand on SAPP was in tangent with Azmin's statement to an online news portal which quoted him as saying that SAPP was “completely out of the list and out of our formula” as far as seat negotiations were involved because of the party's unreasonable demands.

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  81. Azmin stated that Pakatan was close to concluding a seat-sharing deal with its new Sabah allies Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS) and Pertubuhan Pakatan Perubahan Sabah (PPPS).

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  82. APS is led by Tuaran MP Datuk Seri Wilfred Bumburing, the former deputy president of Upko while PPPS is led by Datuk Lajim Ukin, the Beaufort MP and former Umno supreme council member.

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  83. Pakatan party leaders including Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had previously agreed in principle to work out a seat-sharing agreement with SAPP for the 60 state and 25 parliament seats in Sabah.

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  84. Besides having problems with SAPP, the Pakatan parties also face problems in working out a seat deal with Sabah STAR, led by Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan who is pushing for a Sabah for Sabahans agenda.

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  85. Both SAPP and Sabah STAR believed that state-based parties should be allowed to contest the bulk of the state seats while Pakatan parties should focus on parliament seats.

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