Pakatan Rakyat appears not to have learnt from a 2008 polls doctrine in Sabah.
PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Rakyat might be biting off more than it can gnaw in wanting to competition 52 out 60 seats in Sabah in a 13th ubiquitous election. It appears a bloc has forgotten a lashings it received in Sabah in a 2008 polls, when it contested in 59 constituencies as well as won usually one through DAP's Jimmy Wong in Sri Tanjung.
At a time, Pakatan was a loose bloc as well as had decided to walk alone in Sabah, disappearing to span up with local parties.
History, it appears, has not yet taught Pakatan a lesson.
Pakatan has once again pushed divided any possibility of working with local parties in Sabah.
At a meeting with Sabah People's Progressive (SAPP) recently, Pakatan member PKR allegedly told a party which it was going to competition in almost all a seats in Sabah.
Sabah has 60 state seats up for grabs. In a last election, Barisan Nasional (BN) retained 59 seats.
The meeting with SAPP boss Yong Teck Lee ended in an impasse, a PKR insider said.
"Pakatan longed for 52 public seats. PKR longed for 20, DAP nineteen as well as PAS 13.
"They told him (Yong) usually eight seats were allocated for local (Sabah-based) parties.
"I consider Yong was shocked. He told them it was not workable," pronounced a insider who spoke on condition of anonymity.
PAS mislaid a deposit
In a 2008 ubiquitous election, PKR contested in 48 constituencies whilst DAP as well as PAS contested in 10 as well as two seats respectively.
PAS did so really bad which it mislai! d a depo sit
Even Wong's chair in Sri Tanjung was won after he fought off PKR as well as BN in a three-cornered fight.
"Unlike Peninsular Malaysia, Pakatan in Sabah was too weak (at a time)
"'The incident is opposite now though it does not mean a Pakatan has a better chance in Sabah.
"The bloc is being overly ambitious in Sabah. PKR has less await in Sabah than it has in a Peninsula. The same with PAS.
"The strategy for Sabah is unfair as well as wrong," a insider said.
According to him, a bloc was assured of at slightest 4 seats Inanar, Likas, Luyang as well as Kapayan where in 2008, both PKR as well as DAP had contested opposite BN in a three-cornered fight.
"In these 4 seats a common votes secured by PKR as well as DAP (in 2008) were aloft than BN.
"Pakatan feels which if there is a straight fight, it win in Inanar, Likas, Luyang, Kapayan," he said.
Misguided notion
He also forked out PAS' "unrealistic" bid to competition in 13 seats, when it is yet to secure a firm foothold in a state.
"In 2008, PAS contested in Sukau as well as Merotai. It usually managed to get 76 as well as 931 votes respectively as well as mislaid a deposit in both a public seats.
"Now it wants 13 seats does this have sense to you?" he asked.
DAP, on a part, is demanding nineteen seats claiming it has increasing await in Chinese areas like Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan as well as Tawau.
The Chinese in Sabah can have their collect of DAP as well as SAPP opposite BN's Liberal Democratic Party, Gerakan as well as MCA.
To supplement piquancy is a deep adversary between DAP as well as SAPP as well as claims of "sabotage" have flush at every election.
For a record, Sabah saw a most series of parties contesting seats in 2008. Some seats had as most as 7 candidates opposed for them.
This aside, a main indicate here, acco! rding to a insider, is Pakatan's notion which it can float alone but a await of local parties.
"I do not know why Pakatan thinks it can do it alone. It is impossible to win in Sabah but a await of local-based parties.
"It will usually bring them down," he said, adding which a current incident obviously favours BN, which might retain Sabah for another term.
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