In a Borneo Post Online report, Saratok MP Mawan, who is the former Teras president, said the party was still in existence and that his former comrades in Teras were regrouping.

He said the Teras members had a point in asking him to rejoin the pro-BN party, pointing to former UPP members Bawang Assan and Dudong assemblymen Wong Soon Koh and Tiong Thai King’s re-entry into the UPP after the recent state election.

Mawan, Wong and Tiong were among 13 direct-BN candidates in the state election. All 13 direct candidates were required to leave their respective parties and were allowed to rejoin any BN party after the election.
Of the 11 direct candidates who won in the election, nine including Mawan, who is also Pakan assemblyman, remain partyless.

“They (Teras members) are asking why Wong and Tiong are allowed to rejoin UPP but not me (rejoining Teras),” he said, adding that the Teras members said they would use UPP’s case as a precedent.

“My former comrades want me to rejoin Teras, but I have applied to join PBB. I am now in a Catch-22 situation, but personally I find this a pleasant dilemma because whichever way it goes, we are all true-blue BN members.”
He hoped Teras members would give him more time to sort things out.

Mawan, who was formerly SPDP president, founded pro-BN Teras in 2014, following a leadership crisis in SPDP.