Another PBDS leadership showdown on the cards?
The Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS), a component of the state ruling coalition, looks like bracing for another leadership showdown at its forthcoming triennial delegates conference (TDC) tentatively scheduled for September this year.
This time, however, it looks like the party's information chief Dr James Jemut Masing, who lost to incumbent deputy president Daniel Tajem for the deputy president's post in the 2000 TDC is going for broke - it is now almost certain he will go for the presidency, should Leo Moggie anak Irok, the president, sticks to his decision to step down this year.
Yesterday, 22 party branches in the Sibu division in central Sarawak reportedly passed a joint resolution urging Masing, who is also state minister of social development and urbanisation, to stand for the top post.
According to the Sunday Tribune , in a report from Sibu, the timber-rich town in central Sarawak and where the branches held their joint annual general meetings (AGMs), 'Masing had accepted their call to contest.'
If Masing has, in fact, already decided to do so, this will put him head-on again with Tajem, a former deputy chief minister and former Malaysian envoy to New Zealand. The latter, according to reports, not only has the support of most top party leaders, including Moggie, but also most of the some 300 party branches throughout Sarawak.
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