KOTA KINABALU - Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) youth leader, Edward Dagul, today agreed with the challenge by DAP assistant secretary Junz Wong to support the move by DAP Chairman Karpal Singh to amend the federal constitution to prevent party hopping of elected representatives after their election to the legislatures.
Edward said that in fact, a new anti-hop law is among the key platforms in SAPP's manifesto launched at the SAPP delegates conference on 3 June this year "to deter elected members of the legislative assembly and parliament from switching parties after being elected, SAPP shall pursue anti-hop principle so that any elected member who changes party shall be required to resign his/her seat. The member may submit to the electors by re-contesting the seat concerned. This principle will require amendments to both the State and Federal constitutions which SAPP shall pursue."
"Therefore, our MPs will happily support any motion or amendment to the federal constitution on anti-hop law," said Edward who is also the SAPP chief for Kawang in Papar.
Edward asserted that DAP's Junz Wong has mischievously re-opened the debate over the strategy of PKR leaders in encouraging BN MPs to switch to the opposition. "Junz Wong was in fact challenging the Tuaran MP and Beaufort MP and PKR leaders to make a stand on anti-hop," commented Edward. DAP also has a record of its MPs and assemblymen ditching the party, the latest being at Perak which led to the loss of the State government.
Young Malaysians should learn from the anti-hop law which was first passed in Sabah in 1986 but which was later declared by the Federal Court to be ultra vires the federal constitution on grounds of "freedom of association". The one and only case of an elector who lost his seat due to the anti-hop law was the then USNO assemblyman for Bongawan in the late 1980s who is now the Director of Strategy in Sabah PKR.
SAPP sendiri sedar yang mana sokongan terhadap parti tersebut semakin menurun. Ini mungkin kepercayaan penduduk Sabah kepada SAPP semakin berkurangan kerana tidak ada pendirian sebagai parti tempatan Sabah.
ReplyDeleteSAPP sekarang ni tengah menjalankan strategik untuk menarik undian rakyat
DeleteBukan sahaja SAPP, semua parti di Malaysia bersedia dan merancang strategy untuk bersaing.
DeleteApa pun strategik SAPP, tidak akan dapat menarik perhatian rakyat juga.
DeleteKekalahan Yong Teck Lee di batu Sapi itu boleh kita buat andaian. Bagaimana rakyat menolak SAPP ini.
ReplyDeletePRU13 pasti SAPP kalah lagi tu
DeleteYong akan jadi punca kekalahan SAPP.
DeletePemimpin SAPP sendiri tidak boleh di percayai.
DeletePRU13 semakin dekat mana semakin singkat untuk mencari sokongan sekarang. Maka SAPP pasti merancang sesuatu untuk mendapatkan sokongan. Kekalahan BS itu memang tidak dapat dijangka. Kerana penduduk lebih menerima PKR daripada SAPP. Sebab itu jugalah kepada SAPP mahu bersama dengan PR sekarang ini.
ReplyDeleteSAPP tidak akan menang majoriti dalam PRU13
DeleteYTL adalah liabiliti kepada SAPP.
DeleteSAPP tengah memancing undi
ReplyDeleteKalau SAPP percaya cakap Anwar yang akan memberi laluan pertaning. Memang tidak matang. Cakap Anwar pembelit mahu percaya.
ReplyDeleteSAPP will not going to win the people's vote if they keeps on talking but have no action at all.
ReplyDeleteNo achievement from SAPP to the people.
DeleteThis is not right and i hope people think wise before you put your trust on SAPP.
DeleteI am afraid YTL will going to make things more complicated when every time i remember the SAS case.
DeleteWell everything needs money so those politician does not have any money won't get the place in the next GE.
DeleteParti-parti harus menjalankan tanggung jawab memerjuangkan yang terbaik untuk rakyat.
DeleteParti BN sentiasa mendengar suara rakyat.
DeleteAn elected representative who abandoned his party must resign his post before leaving the party
ReplyDeleteFor the anti-hop law to be reintroduced, the Federal Constitution must be amended to accommodate it.
DeleteUmno vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said there was no need for an anti-hop law in Malaysia which practised democracy, which among others, accorded freedom of association to the individual, including in politics.
ReplyDeleteShafie added if any party wants to prevent its leaders from switching to another party, particularly those who opted to do so after having won in the election, then it should screen and reject potential hoppers as candidates earlier on, before the polls.
DeleteWhatever it is, people of Sabah were mature enough to make the appropriate decision in the coming general election.
ReplyDeleteRakyat di Sabah harus bijak menilai dan mengundi.
ReplyDeleteAction work better than word.
ReplyDeleteBanya cakap pun tiada guna, siapa-siapa pun boleh buat, BN banyak cakap, tapi paling penting, semuanya menjadi.
DeleteSAPP takkan menang, lebih2 lagi jika bersendirian.
ReplyDeletemalang kan.. Lajim dan Bumburing pun keluar BN menyokong PR, bukannya parti tempatan seperti SAPP..
DeleteSAPP hanya pandai cakap sahaja, tapi persoalannya, dapatkah mereka menunaikan janji mereka. Nanti putih mata rakyat sabah.
ReplyDeletejangankan tunaikan janji.. mengundang bencana ada la.. cukuplah rakyat sabah menderita sepanjang 2 tahun SAPP memerintah..
DeleteThe proposed anti-hopping law is unnecessary if one has high integrity and a strong stand, said Community Development and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun. She said integrity was an important aspect for a politician not to be easily swayed by better promises elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteAnother equally important facet of a politician is identifying the cause they are fighting for and their stance. If these values are intact, then there is no need for the anti-hopping law to be put in place, Azizah said.
ReplyDeleteChief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman's financial management of the Sabah government’s coffers and his forest managementpolicies is rated the best in the nation, said state veteran leader Tan Sri Herman Luping.
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DeleteHe said Musa, who has helmed the state government since the past nine years, had not only ensured the state government prospered, but had also given more political stability, prosperity and infrastructural development in the state.
Sabah under him (Musa) is definitely in rapid progress modem.
DeleteLuping, a former Deputy Chief Minister during the Usno era, said Musa's comprehensive strategy, which took into account resources from the state and federal agencies, kick-started his vision for a better and more progressive Sabah.
DeleteWhen Musa took office, he introduced a blueprint on a strategic state development agenda called ''Halatuju'', which focused on an aggressive effort to fully realise the state’s tourism, agriculture and manufacturing potentials.
DeleteIt is this ''Halatuju'' that propelled the three sectors by leaps and bounds over the years.
DeleteThese three economic activities were the key in Musa’s quest to hasten the state’s economic growth and in the process, improved the well being of the people.
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DeleteLuping said the significant growth and contributions of the three sectors to the state’s economy were obvious now for everyone to see, with tourism emerging as a rising industry with increasing tourist arrivals and construction of more hotels.
DeleteSabah recorded an all time high of 2.84 million tourists last year, generating a revenue of RM4.98 billion.
There are 450 hotels of various grades throughout Sabah, offering some 18,000 rooms, and the average occupancy rate is 70 per cent.
DeleteAnother 6,000 rooms are expected to be made available in time for the expected arrival of 3.6 million visitors by 2015, said Luping.
DeleteIn the agricultural sector, he said the emphasis was to enhance food production by increasing domestic production and reducing the state''s dependence on imported food products.
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DeleteAccording to Luping, Sabah has about 2.5 million hectares of land suitable for agricultural development and to date, approximately 1.5 million hectares has been developed.
DeleteThe agricultural sector contributed RM7.24 billion in revenue in 2010. Luping said the manufacturing sector was moving at a fast pace with 53 projects approved last year, involving a total capital investments of RM1.5 billion.
For Sabah and Sabahans, the rapid development took place since Musa took over the state’s leadership.
DeleteThese developments are there to see. And because of the political stability in the state, foreign investors have been flocking here to invest and the latest statistics is more than RM10 billion.
DeleteThis, indicated the foreign investors'' confidence in the state leadership.
DeleteSabah BN liaison chief Datuk Seri Musa Aman said any leader holding whatever post should withdraw if he no longer has confidence in the party and government he represents.
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DeleteThe Sabah Chief Minister said such leaders should withdraw voluntarily and respectfully without the need for their posts to be taken away from them.In the party and government, There are rules and ethics.
DeleteIf a leader, minister or deputy minister no longer has confidence in the party leadership or the government he represents, then he should graciously withdraw.
Musa's comments came following a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Department today that Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah had consented to the revocation of the appointment of Datuk Lajim Ukin as housing and local government deputy minister with immediate effect.
DeleteMusa who is also Sabah BN chairman, advised all Umno and BN leaders in the state not to follow Lajim's action or waste time on this issue as what was more important was for them to work harder to improve the lot of the people.
DeleteHe said Umno and BN leaders needed to strengthen unity and cooperation among them and continue to strive for the good of the people as the BN government today was upholding the trust and mandate given to it by the people.
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DeleteMusa stated that there is no need to worry or be rattled as our nation have the best government, the best leaders as well as the best track record.
With this new development, Musa reminded all Umno and BN leaders in Sabah to place importance on sincerity to the government, party and the top leadership and not on self-interest because only through the former, the people and nation would continue to prosper.
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DeleteMusa said Malaysia today was on a good track under the leadership of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak who was always thinking and concerned about how to solve problems and assist the people.
DeleteBN leadership is different from the opposition's haphazard leadership.
DeleteThey pretend to be blind and deaf to the changes and development taking place in Sabah, but the people know what is good and bad for them.
Musa said some of the local opposition leaders and from outside the state were at one time in the government and holding good posts. "But what have they done for the people?" he added.
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