He said the names had been submitted to Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) chairman Abang Johari Openg, who is also PBB president and Sarawak chief minister.

“We already have the candidates for PBB but we don’t know those for the other component parties,” he said after an event for Sarawak media people, here, today.

The other component parties of GPS are Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) and Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP).

Nanta, who is also domestic trade and consumer affairs minister, said GPS had been ready for the state election since last year, when it was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We have already prepared our operations room for the state election. I have also been directed by Abang Johari to activate our election machinery including holding courses for our operations room personnel,” he added.

PBB vice-president Abdul Karim Rahman was quoted earlier today as saying he was not ruling out the possibility of the Sarawak state assembly being dissolved in a few days.

The state assembly’s tenure expired on June 7, but elections have been put on hold after an Emergency was declared due to Covid-19.

“Maybe in a day or two, we will hear the news about the dissolution of the DUN (state assembly).

“We need to return the mandate back to the people to determine the next government,” Karim said in a Berita Harian report.