GRS to discuss Sabah election seat allocation during supreme council meeting Sunday: Hajiji

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18 Feb 2025 • 4:36 PM MYT
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By: Julia Chan, Malay Mail

Kota Kinabalu: The Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition will be discussing seat allocations for the upcoming 17th Sabah State Election (PRN17) at its supreme council meeting this Sunday, said chief minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor.

Hajiji, who is GRS chairman, said that this would be one of the key agendas to be discussed at the meeting with representatives from its eight component parties.

Advertisement (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});“Seat allocation is one of the items on the agenda to be discussed this Sunday,” he said when met after the launch of the Petroleum Storage and Refinery Plant Project at the Sipitang Oil and Gas Industrial Park (SOGIP) at the Sabah International Convention Centre today.

GRS comprises eight component parties — the dominant Parti Gagasan Rakyat with 26 assemblymen, Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) with seven assemblymen, Parti Solidarity Tanah Airku (STAR) with six, Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and Parti Harapan Rakyat Sabah (Harapan Rakyat) with one each, and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), United Sabah National Organisation (USNO) and Parti Cinta Sabah (PCS), which currently do not have any assemblymen.

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Hajiji said that they will discuss and decide on that later.

AdvertisementGRS won the last state election in 2020 in an alliance with Barisan Nasional (BN), ousting the Warisan government who was working with Pakatan Harapan (PH) then.