BN tak tandingi semua 73 kerusi Sabah

PENGERUSI BN, Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi memaklumkan bahawa parti itu tidak akan bertanding di semua 73 kerusi Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Sabah pada Pilihan Raya Negeri ke-17 (PRN17).

Bagaimanapun, beliau menjelaskan UMNO dan BN telah mengenal pasti jumlah kerusi yang difikirkan sesuai untuk ditandingi.

“Yang pasti kita tidak akan bertanding di seluruh 73 kerusi untuk PRN Sabah ke-17 ini. Tetapi ada jumlah-jumlah kerusi yang kita fikirkan di mana kita akan meletakkan calon berdasarkan kepada kebolehmenangan.

“Saya akan umumkan berapa kerusi yang akan kita muktamadkan. Yang penting kerusi-kerusi ini adalah kerusi yang kebolehmenangannya tinggi dan kita akan kerjasama dengan ‘the third force’ di negeri Sabah ini untuk menentukan bahawa kerusi-kerusi itu akan memihak kepada calon-calon BN,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas menyempurnakan acara Flag Off Skuad Sukarelawan BN Sabah di bangunan UMNO Sabah di sini pada Sabtu.

Mengulas mengenai kemungkinan BN akan bertanding di lebih banyak kerusi berbanding 14 DUN yang dimenangi sebelum ini, Zahid berkata, parti itu pasti akan menambah jumlah kerusi baharu.

BN will not contest all 73 Sabah seats

BARISAN Nasional will not contest all 73 state seats in Sabah at the coming state election, says BN chairman Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

However, BN would contest more seats than the 14 it won in the 2020 state election. Six of the 14 were later lost to defections.

“I will announce the number of seats once we finalise it. The additional seats will be new ones. However, we are confident that most of them will side with BN,” Sinar Harian reported him as saying at the state Umno headquarters in Kota Kinabalu on Saturday.

He said Umno and BN have identified the number of seats they believe to be suitable, based on their winnability.

BN would also work with a “third force” in Sabah to ensure that voters in the contested seats lean towards BN candidates. He did not elaborate on which parties would be in the “third force”.

Asked about seat negotiations with Pakatan Harapan, Zahid said the final decision on seats will be made once the state assembly is dissolved to avoid clashes.

Unless dissolved earlier, the Sabah assembly’s term expires on Nov 11, after which an election must be held within 60 days.

 

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