GPS chairman Abang Johari Openg said should everything he anticipated come together, the task of winning all the parliamentary seats at stake in the state would be possible.

“The last time, we were under Barisan Nasional. This is the first election we’ll be on our own (without making any pact with other parties),” he told a press conference here today.

Earlier, Abang Johari, who is also Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) president, chaired the party’s supreme council meeting.

In the current parliamentary term, the party has 13 MPs.

Besides PBB, the other three GPS member parties are Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), which has two parliamentary seats, Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), also with two seats, and Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP), with one seat.

Abang Johari said several PBB incumbent MPs had expressed their desire not to be nominated again for the coming general election to pave the way for younger candidates to take over.

“I will tell you later who they are. I don’t even know when GE15 will be but there is an indication. I don’t have to disclose that now.

“I thank all the leaders who are ready to step down. In PBB, we have the culture of leaders stepping down to give way to the younger generation.”

He said despite the changes, the core of GPS’ struggle since leaving BN had been to restore the rights of Sarawak under the Malaysia Agreement 1963 and the Inter-Governmental Committee that had eroded over the years.