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PAPAR – It’s not possible for Gerakan Tanah Air (GTA) to establish cooperation and form a government with Barisan Nasional (BN), Pakatan Harapan (PH) or Perikatan Nasional (PN) after the 15th general election (GE15).
GTA pro tem chairman, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said this was because GTA only wished to cooperate with like-minded political party leaders, so it was impossible for it to work with leaders or parties mired in corruption.
The Parti Pejuang Tanah Air (Pejuang) chairman said with regard to Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS), GTA would study further if the coalition that formed the state government was interested in collaborating after GE15.
“We have to choose the parties and leaders that we can cooperate with and it’s impossible to cooperate with BN, PH and PN,” he said after a ceramah programme held by Sabah Pejuang, here, today.
Also present were his wife, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali and Sabah Pejuang chief, Nicholas Sylvester.
GTA comprises four political parties, namely, Pejuang, Putra, Berjasa and Iman, as well as a number of non-governmental organisations that formed Gagasan Bangsa.
In GE15, GTA candidates will contest using the Pejuang logo, except in Kelantan where they will use the Putra logo.
GRS comprises Bersatu, Parti Bersatu Sabah, Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku, Sabah Progressive Party and Usno which established cooperation with BN to administer the state government.
Meanwhile, Dr Mahathir said the leaders should not limit their movement to the ‘land below the wind’ if they wished to have a prime minister from the coalition but to also garner support in Sarawak and the peninsula.
“The Malaysian Constitution does not restrict any individual from any constituency in the country to become prime minister but that individual required support to hold the post.
“A Sabahan also qualifies to be prime minister but the problem is getting support, so we hope that they (Sabah political leaders) venture out to the peninsula and Sarawak to make themselves familiar,” he added.
Asked about Sabah Warisan president Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, who plans to bring his party to the peninsula, the former two-time prime minister said Shafie had the right to also become prime minister based on the constitution, but he needs to garner support to be appointed. – Bernama, November 7, 2022