KUCHING: Parti Aspirasi Rakyat Sarawak (Aspirasi) agrees with Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaacob that Parliament should be dissolved so that the 15th general election could be held in order to solve the political issues faced in the country currently.
Aspirasi president Lina Soo viewed that the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government should call for a snap election.
“Both PN and Pakatan Harapan (PH) should get fresh mandate from the people to claim the legitimacy to govern the nation,” she said in a statement on Monday (June 22).
She said the purpose of going back to the people was to ensure political stability.
“The nation is facing the Covid-19 and economic fallout from the pandemic. It is not healthy for a nation to indulge in political squabbling while the people are suffering financial hardship. When the political instability continues, the people will only suffer more,” she said.
The only option was to dissolve Parliament to have another general election, she said, and after that the new government could get down to work to instil confidence, and manage the health threat and economic recovery.
“Sarawak has 31 seats which can determine the winner. Whoever the Sarawak government decides to support must be in the best interests of Sarawak to get back our oil and gas resources, our territorial waters and all Sarawak rights,” she said.
For now, she said political parties in Sarawak must continue to fight for Sarawak rights, and prepare for the 12th State Election and GE15 instead of engaging in Malaya’s never-ending political power struggle.
“Sarawak political parties should think of serving the people here, instead of pandering to Malayan politics and allowing them to dictate to us how to behave politically.
“Let Sarawak forge our own political destiny and let Sarawakians themselves determine how we want to choose our political, social and economic future,” said Soo.
