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KOTA KINABALU: Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor has officially taken over the helm of Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (Gagasan Rakyat) following the party's extraordinary general meeting (EGM) today.

Hajiji, who is also Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) chairman said that with this move all GRS members now have a political platform that is 100 per cent local to continue with their struggle for the people and the State.

"Two main characteristics of Gagasan Rakyat that have attracted my colleagues and I to be with this party are that it is a multi-racial party symbolising inclusivity and it is a party representing the voice of Sabahans and with it, the local struggle," he said.

These were also factors that have convinced partners in GRS to accept Gagasan Rakyat as their latest component partner, he said at the Gagasan Rakyat EGM attended by more than 150 members at the Sabah International Convention Centre (SICC), here.

"Moreover, they (GRS component parties) have long expressed their wish for GRS to be a local platform in the real sense, that is for all the partners to be local parties. Now we are 100 per cent local.

Besides, Hajiji said Gagasan Rakyat's agenda is also in line with the four pillars of GRS’s struggle - Sabah First, Sabah Forward, Sabah Prosper, and Sabah United.