ALOR SETAR - Parti Pejuang Tanah Air (Pejuang) needs to find an effective formula for survival in addition to identifiying the factors of why they have been rejected by the people.
SOME political analysts argue that Sabah politics is different from Peninsular Malaysia’s.
They point to the demographics of the two territories. Sabah has ethnic communities such as Kadazandusun, Murut, Bajau, Lundayeh, Rungus and Bisaya that influence state politics; Peninsular Malaysia has mostly Malays, Chinese and Indians and only a few Orang Asli groups that aren’t political.
They also contend that Sabah politics is unique because the state has several locally-based political parties, like Parti Warisan Sabah, Parti Sabah Bersatu (PBS), United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (Upko), Sabah Star (Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku), Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), Parti Cinta Sabah (PCS) and United Sabah National Organisation (Usno). Parties based in Peninsular Malaysia tend to be national rather than confined to one state; though some do not have a presence in Sabah and Sarawak.
IF you could “vote out” a politician and stop him or her from participating in politics for a decade, who would you choose?
On Wednesday, Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia leader Datuk Wan Mohd Shahrir Wan Abd Jalil shared a Weird Facts post on his Facebook: “In ancient Athens, the world’s first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The ‘winner’ was banished from Athens for 10 years.”
I contacted Wan Mohd Shahrir to ask why he posted this rather pointed information.