The Sarawak National Party (Snap) is out of Sarawak Pakatan Rakyat (PR) not because it wants to but because it no longer felt welcome in the opposition coalition, its secretary-general Stanley Jugol explained today.

"We did not leave them, they just did not want us anymore," he said when asked to comment on conflicting media reports regarding its position in the coalition.

"They did not tell us officially that we are no longer part of the opposition coalition, but from their body language and statements, you could tell that they did not want us anymore," he said.

sarawak election kuching dap ceramah 160411 04 Jugol added that the last time Snap attended a Sarawak PR council meeting was in March on the seat allocations prior to the April 16 state elections.

"Since then we have not been invited to PR council meetings. I guess they consider us as no longer part of the PR," he said.

The proof, Jugal said, was a DAP leader's statement that the "door is still open for Snap to rejoin PR".

That being jilted feeling

"Why should he utter such a statement if we were still in the PR? By uttering that kind of statement, it means that we are no longer a PR member," he said.

He said the issue of Snap leaving PR, therefore, did not arise, pointing out that the party is still friends with the DAP, but not PKR.

"It is possible that PKR does not like us because it considers us a spoiler in the state elections," he said.

In any case, he said it does not matter whether Snap is in or outside PR."We will be on our own and do things our own ways," he added.

NONE He said the party's central executive committee (CEC) will meet next Saturday to discuss, among other things, its relationship with PR.

The relationship between the two parties turned sour when they failed to reach an agreement on the seat allocations in the rural areas.

The upshot was they faced each other in the areas also vied for by the Barisan Nasional.

The party battled for 26 seats and lost all with only one candidate not losing the deposit for failing to secure one-eighth of the total vote cast.