Malayan party PKR says will review Malaysia Agreement if it wins Sarawak

KAJANG - PKR will review the 1963 agreement which brought Sarawak into Malaysia if it wins the right to govern the state in the next elections, PKR Sarawak chief Baru Bian said today.

Sarawakians should take the opportunity to vote for a new state government if the retirement of the state’s long-ruling chief minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud’s resignation triggers snap polls, he said.

“When we formed Malaysia, one of the main reason was that we would be at the same level as Malaya.

“We were about 10 years backwards then. But when Sarawakians look back , we feel that we are worse than when we started.

“We are saying yes, we want to rewrite, we want to redo what has not been done by the federal government and here is the opportunity,” he told reporters here at the end of the party retreat here.

Taib’s resignation from his post of chief minister is effective from February 28.