A Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) leader has slammed Chief Minister Adenan Satem for breaching BN’s constitution by fielding BN direct candidates in the coming state election.
"The chief minister has seriously violated the BN constitution on unanimity by appointing non-BN parties as BN candidates," said Sibu SUPP chief of publicity Wong Ching Yong.
"The party's central working committee must lodge a complaint with the Registrar of Societies (ROS).
“Both party president Sim Kui Hian and secretary-general Sebastian Ting must lodge complaints," he said.
Doing so is to safeguard the party's dignity, the BN spirit as well as to ease the party supporter’s feelings, he added.
He was referring to the six SUPP seats Adenan gave its splinter party United People's Party (UPP) yesterday.
The six seats are Opar (to UPP's candidate Ranum Mina), Mambong (Jerip Susil), Engkilili (Johnical Rayong), Dudong (Tiong Thai King), Bawang Assan (Wong Soon Koh) and Pujut (Hii King Chiong).
Disgraceful day
"This is a disgraceful day for SUPP because this is the first time ever the party, which has participated in 11 state elections, lost six seats when the war bugle is blown," Wong said.
Using a school examination analogy, he said Adenan was akin to a domineering examiner asking a student not to answer six questions out of 19.
SUPP has thus far secured rights to contest in 12 out of 19 seats it contested in 2011. The party has also asked to stand in two new seats created in the redelineation exercise.
Although UPP is BN-friendly, it is not an official component of the BN coalition. UPP members comprise former SUPP members who had left to form a new party.
Yesterday, SUPP chief Sim expressed disappointment at Adenan's decision.
The party had earlier passed a resolution to defend its right to contest in all 19 seats allocated to the party.
SUPP had then requested extra two seats to be given to them following the redelineation exercise.
"The party president and the central working committee must give a satisfactory explanation on the issue, or else the representativeness of our candidates will be in question," said Wong.
