PBDS battlelines clear, Tajem names running mate

comments     Tony Thien     Published     Updated

The battlelines in the leadership fight for control of Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) have been finally drawn after another prospective presidential candidate Daniel Tajem formally picked treasurer-general Joseph Salang Gandum last night as his running-mate for the deputy present's post.

Tajem, 62, the party's deputy president since 1983 when the party was formed and a former Sarawak deputy chief minister and a former Malaysian envoy to New Zealand, formally invited Salang, who is also the member of parliament for Julau, to be his running-mate for the deputy president's post, at a dinner in Kota Samarahan at the residence of a PBDS supreme council member Edward Sandah.

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