Parti Bersatu Sabah
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The Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS, or United Sabah Party) is a political party in Sabah, east Malaysia. It was registered as a political party on March 5, 1985. The founding president was Datuk Joseph Pairin Kitingan, who broke away from the ruling Parti Berjaya because of his differences with party president Harris Salleh, the Chief Minister in whose cabinet Pairin served before the break.
Although it is mainly seen as an ethnically-based Kadazan-Dusun political party, PBS calls itself a "Malaysian multi-racial political party". Its declared political mission is to strive to safeguard Sabah's autonomy and states rights, promote democratic principles, economic advancement, human rights, and justice.
PBS formed the state government after winning the 1985 state elections and governed Sabah from 1985 to 1994. Following the 1986 Sabah riots, PBS joined the Barisan Nasional coalition after winning the May 1986 state election.[1] However, on the eve of the July 1990 state election, PBS pulled out of the coalition[1] and won the state election for a third time. It also won the 1994 state elections by a narrow margin. However, numerous defections occurred as many PBS representatives switched allegiance to the then opposition Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition before PBS were even able to form a new state government; these politicians were nicknamed katak, which means frogs in Malay. PBS subsequently rejoined the BN coalition in 2002, ending any form of opposition as BN fully occupied the state legislature and returning Sabah to the rule of the BN coalition that holds the federal parliament.
Tragedy Accident & By-election
Main article: Batu Sapi by-election, 2010
Batu Sapi MP Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah of Parti Bersatu Sabah died in a road accident in Kota Kinabalu on 09/10/2010. Edmund,54,was believed to have been riding a Kawasaki 750 bike along the Sembulan-Tanjung Aru road when he was involved in a crash with an on-coming Mercedes car at about 11.40am Saturday.
Chong was born on April 9, 1956 in Sandakan,and married to Linda Tsen Thau Lin and has four children.
He took the oath of office as MP after winning the Batu Sapi seat in the 2004 general election. A by-election was later held on November 4,[2] and PBS later nominates his wife, Datin Linda Tsen Thau Lin. PBS later successfully defended the seat,and she was later appointed as the new MP, replacing her late husband.
References
- Chin, James 1994. "Sabah State Election of 1994: End of Kadazan Unity, Asian Survey, Vol. 34, No. 10, pp. 904–915
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lim, G. "Sabah: All Quiet On The Eastern Front?". Aliran Monthly. Archived from the original on 2007-11-19. Retrieved 2008-01-20.
- ↑ http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/10/16/nation/7236479&sec=nation Batu Sapi polls on Nov 4, too
