SAPP not pulling out from BN but calls for PM to step down

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KUALA LUMPUR, WED (Updated: 3:01pm):

SABAH People Progressive Party (SAPP) president Datuk Yong Teck Lee said the party is not pulling out from the Barisan Nasional but has called for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to step dowe because they do not have confidence in his leadership.

Yong said the party would make its stand known in Parliament on June 23.

Two SAPP MPs will table a vote of "no confidence" on June 23. The party's supreme council will meet on Friday to discuss its membership in the Barisan Nasional.

The SAPP is making its stand now before the window of opportunity closes in August when the nation’s attention switches to the MCA and UMNO elections, the fasting month, public examinations and other year-end events.

The momentum is now on for Sabah to recover its autonomy, besides getting the 20 per cent of oil royalty and the return of Labuan.

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Anonymous  

Politics should not be based on wishful thinking and living on hope. The changing of the guards is always an unsettling time.

Real political stability hinges on a regular change of government. The longer a government stays in office, the greater the instability that follows with the eventual departure of the government.

Mahathir was in office for 22 years, enforcing an artificial stability.

With his departure, it's only natural that we witness a period of instability.

If the BN government is replaced at the Federal level by PR, we will be in for even greater instability.

The people must blame themselves. They seem not to know, in the last 50 years, what democracy is all about, about checks and balances, transparency, public accountability, about the need for a strong Opposition. The press must blame themselves.

Order can only come from chaos. As Dr Stephen Hawkings said: "Chaos is the only predictable quality of the universe." This is also true of human lives.

Don't be taken in by a negative interpretation of karma, the favourite scare tactic used by the Brahmin bullshitters.

Look for the silver lining in the clouds, consider anything that happens as a blessing in disguise, count your blessings. Roll with the punches. Be thankful and grateful and you will have even more reasons to be thankful and grateful for.

Think positive.

We will come out stronger than ever from all this.

June 18, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Anonymous  

SAPP chose to be expelled from BN rather than pulling out.

June 18, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Anonymous  

Bad timing, Sapp.

If Badawi lost a no confidence vote and Anwar not yet a parliamentarian, guess who'll be the PM if not Najib mongolia.

Best thing is leave the BN and ally with PR. Come September or when Anwar becomes a n MP via a by-election, then move for the kill.

June 18, 2008 at 4:53 PM

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