Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Sapp MPs to move no-confidence motion

Sabah Progressive Party (Sapp) today announced that it would move a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi when Parliament resumes on Monday.
This appeared to be the opening move by the BN component member which may see the Sabah-based political party eventually leaving the coalition.
The announcement was made at the party headquarters in Kota Kinabalu at 2pm.
“Today is just the first step. There might not be any defections for now,” said a source.
Anwar needs 30 MPs
In recent weeks Sapp has been identified as the most likely party to leave BN and join forces with Anwar Ibrahim's Pakatan Rakyat.
Sapp is led by outspoken former chief minister Yong Teck Lee, who in recent months has questioned Abdullah's policies towards Sabah and the federal government's inability to solve the illegal migrants' problems in the state.
The party has two members of parliament and four state representatives.
Political commentators pointed out that even if the party pulled out of BN to join Pakatan, the defection of the two MPs would not be sufficient for rock Abdullah's BN.
Anwar needs 30 MPs to derail Abdullah and BN from power.
However, Sabah sources claim that other BN coalition partners would follow Sapp out of BN if the party starts the exodus.

The statement listed four areas of dissatisfaction with Abdullah's premiership:

1) That no concrete action had been taken on the issue of illegal immigrants, despite repeated requests by SAPP and other Barisan component parties;

2) That the government had offered no holistic economic solutions to cushion the blow of the sudden hike in fuel prices, which had greatly burdened the people and threatened further hardcore poverty;

3) That not enough attention had been paid to issues raised by the people of Sabah -- poor delivery systems, corruption, wastage, lack of transparency and accountability -- and that SAPP would have failed in its duty as elected representatives if these issues continued to be ignored; and

4) That the people have lost confidence in Abdullah, and that if he can't perform, he should step aside and make way for another leader to take over.


tunku : a good move to pressure pak lah to resign but will the old man listen?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think the major issue now is the number of silent protests within the BN MPs.

Tak Dak Nama 3

SiR KinG TiGeR said...

Syabas Dato Yong. Believe me there will be more soon ! after all Anwar said it should happen by September. I am waiting for that very moments ! What happened to TDM and group?

Pak Lah has no choice, but to go back to Kepala Batas and start "using " JEAN-ne ??