Be united in facing election
SANDAKAN,
Oct 31, 2011 (The Star) -- Barisan Nasional component parties
must put aside their internal and intra-party quarrels and
focus on strengthening the coalition for the general election.
“Helping
one another is very important for all component parties
as we are facing a very tough election,” Deputy Prime Minister
Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said at the opening of the 22nd
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) congress here yesterday.
“This
is why unity whether intra-party or within a party must
be maintained at all times,” he told some 1,500 LDP delegates
and observers attending the congress.
Muhyiddin’s
advice comes in the wake of the continuing political friction
between LDP and Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman after
he (Musa) kept the party out of the state Cabinet earlier
this year.
LDP,
led by Datuk V.K. Liew, has been critical of Musa and LDP’s
Wanita gathering on Saturday also called for the return
of the two-year Sabah chief minister rotation system that
was scrapped after the 2004 general election.
Muhyiddin
said the Barisan spirit of helping one another must prevail
and all parties must show the rakyat they were focused on
bringing benefits to the people through various transformation
programmes undertaken by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib
Tun Razak.
Later
in Penampang, Muhyiddin opened Parti Bersatu Sabah’s (PBS)
26th congress at the KDCA Hall.
PBS
president Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan,called
for a final settlement of the illegal immigrant problem
in Sabah, describing it as a “wound” in the 1Malaysia “body”
that had to be “surgically” treated.
