Sarawak PH seen as having no choice but to back Anwar

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KUCHING: Sarawak Pakatan Harapan’s recent declaration of support for Anwar Ibrahim’s bid to be prime minister has prompted two political analysts to remark that it is looking only at what is politically expedient.

Awang Azman Awang Pawi of Universiti Malaya and Azmi Hassan, formerly of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, said the Sarawak chapter of the opposition coalition had no choice but to switch its support from Shafie Apdal to the PKR president because Shafie’s party, Warisan, lost control of Sabah in last September’s state election.

Sarawak PH secretary Alan Ling, who is a DAP member and a senator, recently said the state chapter would support Anwar, adding that he hoped voters would give PH another chance in the coming general election.

The statement departed from Sarawak DAP chairman Chong Chieng Jen’s declaration last year that his party would support Shafie for prime minister although Anwar was the PH presidential council’s choice. Shafie was then the Sabah chief minister.


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