Kota Kinabalu: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) will abide by all decisions made within Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) unless it involves those completely unacceptable to the party, its President Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili said.
He said PBS will continue to work together in GRS to ensure the coalition defends all of its seats in the next election.
“Although we need to look into this cooperation that we have with GRS, the fact is we still need to work together… More meetings will be good for all parties in the coalition. We do not want to be fooled by the Opposition anymore.
“If GRS fails to come up with joint decisions, then PBS will have to make its own ones… but we will continue with the cooperation we have now,” he told reporters after a dialogue session with professional groups, here, Friday.
Maximus said despite some coalition party members already making their intentions clear about which seats they intend to contest, PBS preferred to take a silent approach when it comes to such matters.
“It is better to talk less and work harder to win the people’s hearts as well as identify which seats are winnable for GRS,” he said.
Earlier, during the dialogue, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Sabah and Sarawak Affairs) said there had been meetings held with Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) leaders to establish some form of political cooperation.
Discussions were leaned towards establishing a coalition of Borneo-based parties, but Maximus said there have been no firm decisions on the matter so far.
“However, I have no qualms of revealing this to the media as they (GPS) have pointed out that with Sabah it could be tricky as the situation here (Sabah), unlike Sarawak, also involves peninsula-based parties,” he added.
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