Pakatan Harapan’s seat negotiations for most of the parliamentary seats have already been resolved, the coalition’s secretary Saifuddin Abdullah said today.

“We are already going into the state seats, which is the second stage of the negotiations. So we are already into the second stage of negotiations,” he told reporters when asked about the progress of the negotiations.

Saifuddin revealed that Parti Warisan Sabah - which is not a Harapan component party - is also a party to the seat negotiations in Sabah.

However, he declined to disclose the total number of parliamentary seats that have been resolved.

Saifuddin was speaking at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur after the weekly meeting of the secretaries of the Harapan component parties.

He announced that the coalition would now start forming liaison committees at the parliamentary level, and 100 such committees would be set up by the end of this month.

Harapan had formed similar committees at the state level last week.

Asked how many new candidates would be fielded and the proportion of seats allocated to each Harapan component party, Saifuddin replied that seats had been allocated to each party according to the "winnability" of the party contesting the seat.

He said while there would surely be new candidates, each party would have the liberty to choose its own candidates and the choice would not be made known until elections have been called.

At the press conference, Saifuddin also announced that Harapan’s national manifesto would contain a section on Sabah and Sarawak.

In addition, there would also be separate manifestos for each of the two Borneo states.

However, he said the Harapan manifesto for Sarawak would be less comprehensive than Sabah because there will not be state elections in Sarawak.

Sarawak’s state election had taken place in May last year, and is not due to be held again until 2021, unless a snap election is called.