KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is ready to work with Sarawak to increase the number of Parliament seats for the two Borneo states.
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal said he agreed with Sarawak that one-third of the Parliament seats should be represented by the two Borneo states.“Fifteen Parliament seats of Singapore were moved to Peninsular Malaysia with Sabah and Sarawak not getting an increase in their representation xfollowing Singapore’s exit, ” he said after launching the Mesilou Food Production Park in the Kundasang highlands, about 80km from here, yesterday.
Shafie said: “Sabah’s Kinabatangan parliamentary seat is almost the size of Pahang, which has 14 parliamentary seats, while Perlis has three in comparison to a similar size of Silam seat in Sabah.” Shafie is the president of Parti Warisan Sabah, which remains as an opposition at the federal level while Sarawak’s Gabungan Parti Sarawak is working with the Perikatan Nasional government led by Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.
Muhyiddin issued the statement after Shafie was quoted in a news portal as saying that Muhyiddin was prepared to offer him the post in exchange for support.
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