Masing snubs Moggie, skips lunch meet with party leaders
Hopes of resolving the leadership squabbles within Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS), a component of the state's four-member ruling coalition, appear to have been dashed after the leader of one faction refused to even sit down and discuss the issue with the rival group.
A key aspirant for the party's top post Dr James Masing, who is the state minister of social development and urbanisation and party information chief, declined to attend a meeting of selected party leaders that incumbent president Leo Moggie had called for on Thursday in Kuala Lumpur.
Masing, who is leader of the faction that has nominated him for the president's post and Sng Chee Hua, one of the party's five vice presidents, for the deputy president's post, told reporters later that he had declined to go to the meeting because Moggie was reluctant to allow one of his staunch supporters Billy Abit, the member of parliament for Ulu Rajang, to attend as well.
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