KUCHING: How can a splinter party be stronger than its parent body?
PBB vice president Datuk Seri Dr Stephen Rundi Utom (pic), who posed this question, was referring to the announcement by Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB), a splinter party of Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP), that it will contest in all the 82 seats in the next state election.
“The rakyat will tell if PSB is indeed stronger than SUPP, its main body. Sarawakians are neither blind nor fools,” Dr Rundi said when contacted by New Sarawak Tribune yesterday.
Dr Rundi, who is also Utilities Minister, pointed out that it is not wrong for PSB president Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh to declare his party’s intention as in Sarawak, democratically everyone can stand in the election.
“This doesn’t mean that the GPS coalition will take any of its opponents lightly either, and that includes PSB.
“But the question of how big of a threat they are to GPS can only be answered by the rakyat,” added Dr Rundi.
