Sabah PKR full force with Dr. Wan Azizah

PENAMPANG: Pakatan Rakyat (PR) will do its best to ensure the coalition is engaged in a straight fight against Barisan Nasional (BN) in Sabah in the forthcoming 13th General Election.Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Vice-President, Fuziah Salleh, said PR would make a serious effort to realise this aspiration and give BN a tough frght in the election.

"In the interest of PR, we, together with our coalition partners and others who view BN as their enemy, will join forces and ensure a one-on-one battle with BN with the hope of toppling the ruling coalition.


"This is our common initiative and we are working hard towards achieving this most important initiative," she said.Fuziah said this to reporters after PKR President Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail chaired a meeting with the party's main Sabah committee and division heads at its headciuarters here, Friday.

Asked whether PR would join hands with Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), she said it would not leave out SAPP.

"If SAPP also wants put down BN, then we will join forces to topple the ruling coalition.

"Our negotiation panel will talk to PR frrst and PR will talk to the rest (including SAPP). We will not independently approach the rest, in the spirit of PR.

"Our panel will sit down with PR and once the negotiation is completed, we will open up to the rest as PR and not as an individual party.

"That is why in the meeting today we have agreed to appoint a panel ofnegotiators," Fuziah said.

In this respect, Wan Azizah said they decided to have a panel ofthree people to represent the party in the negotiation of seats in Sabah in respect of Muslim, KadazanDusun and Chinese seats.

"The negotiation team will have three people but the panel will have over six members. I have been given the mandate to choose the three people based on the feedback from the party leaders here.

"I will announce the names of the three people in the next few days in Kuala Lumpur," she said.

Wan Azizah said they would also fine-tune "Buku JinggaSabah" and has appointed PKR Kota Belud divisional head, Saidil Simon, as director of the Buku Jingga Sabah.

By Hayati Dzulkifli (DE)