KUCHING: Barisan Nasional direct candidates in the coming Sarawak elections have been urged to resign from their respective political parties. Sarawak BN chairman Adenan Satem said yesterday: “I suggest that they resign from their parties.”
It was up to the candidates whether to become a member of a BN component party later on, if they are elected to the state assembly. “But they must remain pro-BN because it is the BN symbol that has helped them to win,” he said.
He would not comment on what would happen should any of the winners choose to remain partyless later. “We will cross the bridge when we come to it,” he said.
He defined a BN direct candidate as one given the privilege to represent the coalition using its ‘Dacing’ (weighing scale) symbol.
Recently, the BN-friendly United People’s Party insisted that its members and leaders selected to contest in the Sarawak polls would not resign from it.
— BERNAMA