KUCHING: The Sarawak Government has nominated a candidate for the next Senate President role.
Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan said the specific nominee’s name, however, remains undisclosed.
“The nomination process is complete, and we now await the official swearing-in ceremony. We have sent only one candidate for the position,” he told reporters at the Land Compensation Cheque Handover Ceremony for the ART – Sg Batu Depot project development, held at the Sarawak Foundation Auditorium yesterday (Feb 16).
Speculation had previously pointed towards Datuk Mutang Tagal, a former Bukit Mas MP, as the likely successor to Tun Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar as Senate President.
Wan Junaidi vacated the Senate Presidency following his appointment as the eighth Head of State.
Mutang, who served as the MP for Bukit Mas in two consecutive terms from 1982 to 1990, is of Lun Bawang descent. Born on October 5, 1954, in Lawas, he is an alumnus of Universiti Malaya with a Bachelor of Law and holds a Master of Business Administration from Curtin University.
