PH should focus on economic devt: Sarawak PH Chief
Published on: Monday, March 04, 2019
By: Bernama
KUCHING: The Pakatan Harapan (PH) Government should focus more on economic development and issues that cut across all races in terms of their welfare, following its defeat in the Semenyih by-election Saturday.
Sarawak PH Chairman Chong Chieng Jen said the results of the Semenyih state by-election should also serve as a wake-up call to PH nationwide.
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“Although we have won federal power, nevertheless, our national leaders need to buck up and more effort has to be put by the PH government to honour its election manifesto,” Chong, who is also Sarawak DAP chairman, told a media conference after chairing the Sarawak DAP committee meeting here Sunday-
Chong said the harping of race issue in Malaysian politics as had occurred during the Semenyih by-election was also a dangerous trend that should be condoned.
On the agenda of the meeting, he said among the matters discussed was on the state PH coalition preparations for the coming state election which was due in 2021.
He said the groundwork entailed the assigning of elected representatives from the DAP and other PH component parties to take care of several rural areas in the state.
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However, he said the details of its strategies to take on Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) was confidential and, as such, could not be divulged for the time being.
A secretariat would be set up to carry out joint events involving the four PH component parties in the state, namely DAP, PKR, Amanah and Bersatu as part of the groundwork, he added.
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