DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang emphasised today the importance of the Batu Sapi by-elections, claiming that only the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) opposition coalition could offer Sabah the dire need of change.
"It will have a large implication ... it will be a preview to the federal change of power," the Ipoh-Timur MP told The Malaysian Insider.
"What this by-election means, is for the first time the people of Sabah in a by-election will be voting for national change."
Mr Lim is confident that if the PR coalition - which comprises the DAP, PKR and PAS - wins the Batu Sapi parliamentary seat, chances of winning the next general election will be much higher.
Both PKR and SAPP will battle it out with BN come polling day on Thursday.
Their chances were dealt a huge blow on Saturday, however, by a mass defection of members from both parties to Umno, the main political party of the ruling BN coalition.
According to the New Straits Times, nearly 30 PKR members - including the party's Batu Sapi deputy chief Amir Bak and vice-chief Abdullah Madun - and 50 from the SAPP, under the leadership of their Batu Sapi chief Sharifah Dewi, defected on Saturday.
They handed their applications to become Umno members to Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at a ground-breaking ceremony for a public housing project.
The defectors said in a joint statement that they felt only Umno and BN could help better Sabahans' lives.
"It will have a large implication ... it will be a preview to the federal change of power," the Ipoh-Timur MP told The Malaysian Insider.
"What this by-election means, is for the first time the people of Sabah in a by-election will be voting for national change."
Mr Lim is confident that if the PR coalition - which comprises the DAP, PKR and PAS - wins the Batu Sapi parliamentary seat, chances of winning the next general election will be much higher.
Both PKR and SAPP will battle it out with BN come polling day on Thursday.
Their chances were dealt a huge blow on Saturday, however, by a mass defection of members from both parties to Umno, the main political party of the ruling BN coalition.
According to the New Straits Times, nearly 30 PKR members - including the party's Batu Sapi deputy chief Amir Bak and vice-chief Abdullah Madun - and 50 from the SAPP, under the leadership of their Batu Sapi chief Sharifah Dewi, defected on Saturday.
They handed their applications to become Umno members to Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at a ground-breaking ceremony for a public housing project.
The defectors said in a joint statement that they felt only Umno and BN could help better Sabahans' lives.
(Source : The Malaysian Insider, Nov 01, 2010)
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