Parti Bersatu Sabah

United Sabah Party
Parti Bersatu Sabah
Abbreviation PBS
President Joseph Pairin Kitingan
Chairperson Claudius Alex Sundang
Secretary-General Johnny Juani Mositun
Deputy President Maximus Johnity Ongkili
Yee Moh Chai
Jamilah Sulaiman
Women Leader Anita Lasiah Baranting
Youth Leader Jake Jikulin Nointin
Vice President Radin Malleh (First)
Daniel Stanislaus Kinsik
Thien Fui Yun
Edward Yong Oui Fah
Othman Minudin
Treasurer General Linda Tsen
Founder Joseph Pairin Kitingan
Founded 5 March 1985
Split from Sabah People's United Front (opposition)
Headquarters Blok ‘M’, Lot 4, Tingkat 2 & 3, Donggongon New Township, Donggongon, 89507 Penampang
(Peti Surat 13060, 88834 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah)
Youth wing Youth Section
Women's wing Women Section
Ideology Racial unity
Kadazan-Dusun interests
Democracy
National affiliation Gagasan Rakyat (1991–96)
Barisan Nasional (1985–1990, 2002–present)
Colours Green, light blue
Dewan Negara:
1 / 70
Dewan Rakyat:
4 / 222
Sabah State Legislative Assembly:
7 / 60
Election symbol
Website
www.pbs-sabah.org
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The Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS, or United Sabah Party) is a political party in Sabah, Malaysia. It was registered as a political party on 5 March 1985. The founding president was Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Joseph Pairin Kitingan, who broke away from the ruling Parti Berjaya because of his differences with party president Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima 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" in which members are mostly of Kadazan-Dusun (from both the Dusunic plus Paitanic ethnolinguistic groups) and Murut (including the Lundayeh subgroup) ethnic descent though the second and third largest ethnic membership are mostly Muslim Bumiputeras, mostly ethnic local Sabahan based ethnic Malay race (Bruneian Malays and Cocos Malays), and also from the Bajau community of peoples, which is the second-largest ethnic Bumiputra in the state including the Iranun subgroup and some Suluk together with the Chinese (alongside those of mixed-race or "Sino-Native" subgroup of the Chinese minority) and 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. 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.

Elected representatives

Dewan Negara (Senate)

Senators

  1. Jamilah Sulaiman – appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong

Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives)

Members of Parliament of the 13th Malaysian Parliament

Dewan Undangan Negeri (State Legislative Assembly)

Malaysian State Assembly Representatives

References

  • Chin, James 1994. "Sabah State Election of 1994: End of Kadazan Unity, Asian Survey, Vol. 34, No. 10, pp. 904–915
  1. 1 2 Lim, G. "Sabah: All Quiet On The Eastern Front?". Aliran Monthly. Archived from the original on 19 November 2007. Retrieved 20 January 2008.
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