Two ex-Sarawak National Party (Snap) top leaders James Wong Kim Min and Justine Jinggut will backtrack and now turn to the home minister first to try and reverse the Registrar of Societies' (ROS) decision to de-register the party.

According to Justine, secretary-general of Sarawak's third oldest-established party which the ROS de-registered on Nov 4, the duo will submit an appeal letter to Home Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Monday (Dec 2).

"If the minister's decision is not favourable, it is most likely that we will go to the court to appeal against it," he added.

Ex-Snap office-bearers aligned to Wong, 80, who has said he will quit whatever is the court's eventual decision, met last night at the home of former Snap deputy secretary-general Edmund Stanley Jugol after the Kuala Lumpur High Court's decision yesterday to throw Wong and Justine's application for a certiorari order against the ROS' decision.