Masing snubs Moggie, skips lunch meet with party leaders

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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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