Parti Bersatu Sabah

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Parti BersatuSabah
United Sabah Party
Party leader Joseph Pairin Kitingan
Secretary General Henrynus Amin
Deputy Chairman Maximus Johnity Ongkili , Yee Moh Chai , Almudin bin Kaida
founding March 5th 1985
Number of members 130,000
Website http://www.pbs-sabah.org/

The Parti Bersatu Sabah ( PBS , also United Sabah Party ) is a political party that has its roots in the Malaysian state of Sabah . Former cabinet member Joseph Pairin Kitingan left the ruling Parti Berjaya party in 1982 because of a disagreement with Harris Salleh , Prime Minister of Sabah , and registered the PBS as a political party on March 5, 1985. After the 1985 election victory, the PBS ruled the state of Sabah from 1985 to 1994.

Political goals

Although the party is widely viewed as the Kadazan-Dusun's political advocacy group , the PBS sees itself as a "Malaysian, multicultural political party". Its declared political goals are the preservation of the autonomy of Sabah and its federal rights, the promotion of democratic structures, economic progress, human rights and justice.

history

After it was founded in March 1985, the PBS took part in the national elections in Sabah and won against the ruling BERJAYA . The Sabah crisis forced the party to hold new elections early in May 1986. However, she again emerged victorious and joined the Barisan Nasional coalition government . However, on the eve of the June 1990 national elections, the PBS left the coalition and won the election for the third time. The 1994 election was also won by the PBS, but only with a wafer-thin majority.

Before the cabinet was formed, however, a considerable number of MPs defected to the opposition Barisan Nasional party . Kitingan was denied the swearing-in as prime minister and instead Tun Sakaran Dandai was sworn in as the eighth prime minister of Sabah by the UMNO.

In 2002 the PBS rejoined the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition government and ended its role as an opposition party.

By-election for Edmund Chong Ket Wah

Edmund Chong Ket Wah, the PBS MP for the Batu Sapi constituency, was killed in an accident on October 9, 2010. The 54-year-old politician collided with an oncoming Mercedes in his Kawasaki 750 on the road from Sembulan to Tanjung Aru. Chong has been a constituency MP since 2004. For the by-election on November 4, 2010, the PBS put his wife Linda Tsen Thau Lin as a candidate. She successfully defended the headquarters of the PBS and succeeded her late husband as a member of parliament.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lim, G .: Sabah: All Quiet On The Eastern Front? . Aliran Monthly. Archived from the original on November 19, 2007. Retrieved January 20, 2008.
  2. ↑ Kalimullah Hassan: Reforms yes, but not through violence in the streets ( Memento of December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in: New Straits Times, November 18, 2007 issue
  3. ↑ http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/10/16/nation/7236479&sec=nation Batu Sapi polls on Nov 4, too

Remarks

  1. ↑ These defectors are nicknamed katak in Sabah , the Malay expression for "frog".
  2. ↑ Chong was born on April 9, 1956 in Sandakan. He was married to Linda Tsen Thau Lin and had four children.