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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

SAPP moving forward on talks with Pakatan and Star


SAPP and Jeffrey Kitingan-led STAR are expected to discuss 'anytime now' on how they can cooperate and put up one-to-one fights with BN.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Yong Teck Lee is optimistic about the ongoing negotiations on seat distribution and election preparations between his party and the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.

Yong said talks to work out a deal with local opposition parties that are not under Pakatan’s umbrella grouping had picked up momentum over the past month as general election looms.

He said he welcomed recent statements by PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim and deputy president Azmin Ali, which “clearly indicated that they had agreed with SAPP including the principle of burden sharing” (of difficult seats) in the 13th general election”.

The local opposition party has been asserting its legitimacy as a Sabah party vis-a-vis ‘peninsula-based’ opposition party branches in the state in demanding a greater share of seats.

Yong and party leaders have been pushing SAPP’s struggle for Sabah’s autonomy to claim entitlement to a majority of the 60 state seats. Such a deal would make them kingmakers in the next government of Sabah if they win in the coming election.

The SAPP leader, a former state chief minister under the Barisan Nasional’s unconventional but now revoked leadership rotation that granted the chief ministership to each of the three majority communities in the state, noted that SAPP would also be entering talks with the State Reform Party (STAR) Sabah “to fine-tune a couple of matters”.

STAR Sabah, spearheaded by maverick politician Jeffrey Kitingan, and SAPP are expected to discuss any time now how they can cooperate without stepping on each other’s toes to put up local candidates acceptable by both parties for one-on-one fights against BN candidates.

Yong said today was the last day for Parliament to be dissolved, if the government wanted to have the polls before Christmas.

“If not, it could be most probably in March next year, or possibly end of January in order for polling to be held one week before Chinese New Year on Feb 10,” he said.

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84 comments:

  1. PKRPAS,you are all very highly educated & have a long years of political struggle thus experiences in this quirky labour,be sensible & stop taking us Sabahans as stupid fools.Concentrate all your efforts to carry out your heavy burden to oppose & topple the Barisan National Parties in Malaya.Leave the Sabah polparties,namely Star,Usno & Sapp to downsize the Bn parties here.Be matured & Be sensible!ALL YE highly educated sabahans professionals,IF YOU TRULY LOVE US SABABANS & THAT YOU ARE EARNESTLY FIGHTING FOR OUR CAUSE,JOIN THE SABAH's POLITICAL PARTIES or you will be BRANDED as traitors,till the end of time.

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    1. Let opposition focus the 4 states under them.

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    2. Baguslah..Jangan pula bersekongkol dengan Parti pembangkang dari Semenanjung.

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    3. Bukankah SAPP ini parti yang kununnya mampu berdiri sendiri.

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    4. Tapi kenapa pula mahu bersama-sama dan membahagikan kerusi dengan parti lain dengan adil.

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    5. Nampak sangat yang mana SAPP sekarang ini tidak ada sokongan daripada penduduk Sabah.

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    6. Sebab itulah kenapa SAPP memerlukan pertolongan daripada orang lain untuk mendapat sokongan daripada penduduk Sabah.

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    7. SAPP jika sendirian takkan dpt menang.

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    8. YTL adalah liabiliti kepada SAPP...selagi SAPP simpan YTL selagi itulah SAPP akan ditolak oleh rakyat..SAPP mahu ada kerjasama antara pembangkang lain di sabah sebab SAPP mahu undi...jika bersendirian, sudah pasti calon2 SAPP akan hilang deposit..

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    9. Jangan mudah terpedaya dengan SAPP.

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    10. Pembangkang masing-masing ada agenda sendiri, kita tengok sama ada mereka boleh bersatu atau tidak.

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    11. Klu SAPP & STAR x kerjasama dgn parti pembangkang lain, pasti SAPP & star hilang wang pertaruhan PR13

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    12. THE TIME FOR SITTING ON THE FENCE IS LONG OVER. IT MAY BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO CHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER.

      IF YOU DON'T KICK OUT UMNO AND ASSERT YOUR 20 POINTS AGREEMENT YOU WILL LOSE COMPLETE CONTROL OF SABAH TO UMNO & ITS ILLEGALS

      THIS IS A FATE WORSE THAN HELL....MALAYSIA WILL BECOME A LIVING HELL FOR ALL OF US!

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  2. don't dream of usno...waste of time

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    1. Do not belittle any other genuine sabahans;deliver yourselves from the mentality of pbs,upko,pbrs, they are responsible for the influx of the pati invaders,because of their pride and arrogance by not accepting usno as a coalition partner.PRIDE goes before a DOWNFALL?

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    2. USNO sudah lama memohon untuk didaftarkan semula tapi sampai sekarang masih belum ada positive response.

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    3. USNO harus dibubarkan.

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    4. Kenapa pula permohonan USNO tidak diluluskan?

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    5. Engkau hantar soalan kau ke Malaya lah:dia orang sengaja tidak luluskan permohonan kerana diaulang anggap orang Sabah hamba mereka.

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    6. tak lulus, tak dptlah bertanding.

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    7. bagi USNO, nasi sudah menjadi bubur...

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  3. Not only branded as traitors but also proxies and stooges of parti2 Malaya.

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  4. Sama saja dari dulu SAPP mahu bekerjasama, buat meeting sana sini tapi tiada apa2 juga. tiada juga kesepakatan.

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    1. SAPP ni tambirang, tiada mau bekerjasama dgn SAPP.

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  5. To follow Pakatan Rakyat calls for election observers would take Malaysia back to when the country was occupied.

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    1. Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s appeal for Australia to assist Malaysia in the next general election to make sure it will be corruption-free.

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  6. “If Pakatan rules, it will mean we have lost our independence, we have to ask the United States, ask Australia, ask everybody else,” Mahathir said at a press conference.

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  7. Opposition want to riot like in the Arab countries so they can topple the government from outside the voting system,” he added.

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    1. It is your own Sharizat,who said with a veiled threat that the may 13th 1969 rioting could occur if BN loses in the coming 13th general election. Maybe such persons as you,will be a ring leader to riot like in the stone-age middle east and in 1985 in Sabah,when Hell was broken loose.Such people are tools of Iblis,for they live in darkness,thus follow Iblis's command,who is a thief,a liar and a murderer from the BEGINNING!

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  8. Prime Minister Najib Razak had urged those with allegations of unfair elections to not embarrass Malaysia by asking foreign countries to “interfere” in the country’s polls process.

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  9. Let wait what SAPP can get this time.

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    1. BN masih kerajaan yang terbaik, pembangkang hanya buang masa.

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  10. Kalau SAPP dan parti2 lain tidak dapat bekerjasama untuk wujudkan pertandingan 1 lawan 1, memang besar peluang BN untuk menang.

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    1. sampai sekrang masih belum lagi bekerjasama.

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    2. nampaknya ada pertandingan lebih dari 3 penjuru...

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  11. Mustahil untuk pembangkang mencapai kemenangan jika enggan bekerjasama.

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    1. Lebih baik mereka tidak bekerjasama, perjuangan pembangkang masing2 berbeza

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  12. Pembangkang teramat mementingkan agenda sendiri, mustahil boleh kerjasama.

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    1. Pakatan pembangkang mempunyai agenda tersendiri, YTL jangan kecewa sekiranya Pakatan pembangkang tidak mempedulikannya lagi.

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    2. selagi masing2 ego dan tamak, selagi itu takkan dpt bekerjasama.

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    3. Peng Sen, pembangkang2 di sabah semua siok sendiri...

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  13. Lets see what STAR can achieve in Sabah election.

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    1. STAR masih baru di Sabah, tiada hasil perjuangan, bukan mudah untuk rakyat berkeyakinan dengannya.

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    2. sukar laluan untuk star.

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  14. Lets wait for Najib to announce the election date.

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  15. Dalam memastikan kemenangan BN pada PRU13, Najib menekankan pentingnya disiplin berorganisasi sebagai faktor tonggak yang menentukan kejayaan dan kegagalan sesebuah pertubuhan untuk mencapai matlamat yang diingini.

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    1. dalam pembangkang, Anwar tidak pernah menasihatkan ahli2nya apa yang perlu mereka lakukan untuk kebaikkan parti.. sebaliknya dia lebih gemar supaya ahli2nya bijak memfitnah, membohong, memutar belit dan menganjurkan demonstrasi jalanan..

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  16. Pakatan pembangkang tidak akan pernah ikhlas dalam membantu pembangkang tempatan Sabah

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    1. Seperti mana Pakatan Rakyat tidak ikhlas membantu pembangkang tempatan Sabah, begitu jugalah halnya dengan rakyat Sabah dan Sabah.

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    2. Ikhlas atau tidak, rakyat jelas dengannya. Ini juga rakyat sendiri harus pandai menilai.

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    3. Adakah rakyat Sabah akan memberi peluang kepada PR untuk membuat cubaan satu penggal?

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    4. semua parti pembangkang di Malaysia adalah gila kuasa.. jika benar mereka mahu menyelamatkan Sabah dari BN, kenapa mereka tidak bergabung saja?

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    5. jangan percaya sangat dengan pembangkang ni.. cakap saja lebih tapi bila diberikan kuasa, berlaku juga rampasan tanah, berlaku juga rasuah... malah SAPP lagi teruk kerana hampir membankrapkan sabah..

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    6. SAPP hanya buat isu, cakap macam-macam untuk menpengaruhi rakyat, jangan mudah terpedaya, apa SAPP dapat buat untuk kita.

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  17. SAPP hanya akan diperbodohkan oleh Pakatan pembangkang. sebab Jeffrey keluar dari PKR.

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    1. SAPP sendiri pernah mengkritik Pakatan Rakyat.. kononnya Pakatan adalah parti malaya.. dan perjuangan sapp dengan parti malaya sangat bertentangan..

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  18. SAPP tidak berjaya bekerjasama dengan pembangkang lain.

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    1. si Yong boleh bekerjasama dengan pembangkang yang lain tapi dengan syarat dia mesti jadi Ketua Menteri Sabah.. bukan si Jeffrey, Bumburing, Lajim mahupun Azizah..

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    2. Yong kemaruk mahu jadi KM sabah semula...bankrap sabah kalau dia jadi KM...

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    3. Yong, JK semua cita-cita besar mau jadi KM, lupakan sahaja.

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  19. State Reform Party (STAR) Sabah chapter chairman Dr Jeffery Kitingan has recently said that Sabah Progressive Peoples Party (SAPP) was still giving him a headache.

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  20. Barisan pembangkang di Sabah bergerak ke arah perpaduan, akan tetapi gabungan pemerintah Barisan Nasional (BN) kelihatan masih berada di hadapan dalam pilihan raya umum (PRU) ke-13..

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    1. Walaupun momentum dapat diperolehi dari beberapa pembelotan kebelakangan ini, pembangkang di Sabah masih perlu bekerja keras dan mengelakkan pertandingan tiga penjuru dalam pilihan raya akan datang.

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    2. Terdapat pelbagai parti pembangkang di Sabah termasuk Parti Pembaharuan Negeri (STAR), Parti Progressif Sabah (SAPP), Pakatan Rakyat (PR) baru-baru ini menambah sekutu — Angkatan Perubahan Sabah (APS) dan Pakatan Perubahan Sabah (PPS) yang baru ditibuhkan.

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    3. Presiden STAR, Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan memberitahu The Malaysian Insider bahawa partinya sedang mengintai diantara 20 hingga 30 kerusi negeri dan tujuh hingga 12 kerusi parlimen.

      Beliau tidak menolak kemungkinan bagi parti pembangkang untuk bertembung di beberapa kerusi dengan berkata, “Kita sudah membuat perkiraan tentang pertembungan tiga penjuru — dua dari pembangkang dan satu dari BN — tidak ada masalah bagi kami.”

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  21. SAPP, yang dipimpin bekas Ketua Menteri Datuk Yong Teck Lee, dikatakan tidak membantah sekiranya parti pembangkang kebangsaan meletakkan calon di dua pertiga daripada jumlah kerusi parlimen tetapi mahu dua pertiga daripada jumlah kerusi negeri diperuntukkan kepada parti politik tempatan.

    Bagaimanapun, pengerusi STAR Sabah Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan tidak mahu parti pembangkang kebangsaan meletakkan sebarang calon di negeri itu.

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  22. With its defection strategy in shambles Pakatan Rakyat has turned desperate in its bid to find some support in Sabah and Sarawak. It resorted to an ill-thought pledge on Sunday, promising the moon to voters in these states that the coalition has no hopes of fulfilling.

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    1. Labelled as the important-sounding 'Kuching Declaration', the pledge was signed by de facto PKR leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, and DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang. The latter two 'allies' may be unable to agree on implementing hudud, but when it comes to meaningless pledges PAS and DAP are always ready to drop their differences.

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    2. The seven-point pledge is aimed at winning over voters in Sabah and Sarawak by appealing to their desire for autonomy without actually offering anything concrete.

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    3. For instance, Pakatan pledged to solve the problem of illegal immigration through a Royal Commission of Inquiry, but an RCI has already been announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. Perhaps the Pakatan leaders have been too busy these past few weeks trying to engineer defections to notice developments in the real world.

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    4. That also explains why Pakatan has made the outrageous pledge that it would raise oil royalties for Sabah and Sarawak from five per cent to 20 per cent. Given the financial bankruptcy that Pakatan's other populist promises would unleash in Malaysia, one would have thought they would have been more careful in dishing out unviable promises, but lo and behold they have done it again.

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    5. There is no way a potential Pakatan federal government can afford to implement the pledge that Anwar and his 'allies' made on Sunday. Increasing oil royalties would lead to a huge hole in the federal budget that no government will be able to fill.

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    6. But let's not take away from Pakatan's grandiose moment on Sunday, when the three 'allies' and their cheerleaders thought they were making an almost historic 'declaration':

      "We will honourably execute all the policies set forth in the Buku Jingga so that Malaysia will once again be a great nation, her peoples prosperous, her future secure and peaceful, and her name celebrated by all the nations of the world," it said.

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    7. Yes, Anwar has been very busy indeed, besmirching Malaysia's reputation in every interview he gives to his foreign journo friends. He has even compared Malaysia to Zimbabwe, while promising "to protect the security of the state of Israel." One wonders where his loyalties actually lie.

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    8. The 'declaration' continues:

      "We will honour the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement of 1963 which our founding fathers put their hands to, and as a sign of our deep commitment to the peoples of Sarawak and Sabah, consistent with democratic principles and justice for all Malaysians," it said.

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    9. In Pakatan's haste to proclaim its democratic credentials, the coalition has clearly forgotten that Anwar is actually subverting democracy by trying to engineer defections from Barisan Nasional (BN) in Sabah and Sarawak.

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    10. Voters elect their representatives based on their parties and policies. By trying to 'buy' a BN representative to switch over after an election, Anwar is trying to subvert the wishes of the voters who voted for BN. In other words, he cares little for the "peoples of Sarawak and Sabah" – all he wants is their representatives to bolster PKR's federal tally.

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    11. Pakatan also promised the "greater appointment of Sarawak and Sabah citizens to head government departments in their own respective states", but this is already being implemented by the current BN state governments, so Pakatan's 'declaration' adds nothing new.

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    12. The rest of the 'declaration' consists of empty promises:

      "We will increase national integration between Sarawak, Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia through a fair power-sharing arrangement that fully upholds the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement.

      "We will bring the level of infrastructure development in Sarawak and Sabah up to par with Peninsular Malaysia."

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    13. These signify nothing and the Pakatan leaders know it. They feel voters will not hold them to account for their populist promises, so the coalition has no hesitation making grand pledges if it helps get some votes.

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    14. Pakatan's latest attempt at getting some toehold in BN's bastions of Sabah and Sarwak will fail as voters prefer to choose on the basis of real policies and track record, not empty promises.

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    15. After all, Pakatan's abysmal track record in the states it rules is there for all to see. The coalition's desperate pledge will therefore have little or no impact on the growing wave of support for BN.

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  23. kalau STAR bertanding sendirian 2/3 calun mereka akan hilang deposit dan kemungkinan ada yang terik diri sebelum pembuangan undi,jadi sebaik-baiknya bergabung lah sebagai sebuah gabungan yang kuat,macam lidi kelapa kalau sebatang senang patah tapi kalau sebandel tetap kuat punya.

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  24. To all SAPP fanboys,
    What was the result of Batu Sapi by-election?
    Who was the SAPP candidate and how many votes SAPP obtained?
    Even PKR with non-local imported minnow got more votes?
    Wake up, stop dreaming that SAPP is strong.

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