{"id":29323,"date":"2024-06-25T13:26:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T05:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=29323"},"modified":"2024-06-25T13:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T05:26:35","slug":"peninsula-parties-are-not-prohibited-from-contesting-in-sabah-says-suhaimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2024\/06\/25\/peninsula-parties-are-not-prohibited-from-contesting-in-sabah-says-suhaimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Peninsula parties are not prohibited from contesting in Sabah, says Suhaimi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Umno Information Chief Datuk Suhaimi Nasir has clarified that there is no rule preventing peninsula-based parties from participating in elections in Sabah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the FMT, it was highlighted that Umno has a well-established presence in the state and functions autonomously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suhaimi assured that Umno respects Sabah&#8217;s autonomy and that those from Umno contesting in Sabah are Sabahans themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also mentioned that Sabah Umno is dedicated to advocating for the state&#8217;s constitutional entitlement to 40% of its net revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suhaimi criticised STAR president Jeffrey Kitingan&#8217;s call for peninsula-based parties to refrain from contesting in Sabah, stating that it goes against the constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He believes that the presence of Malayan parties in Sabah does not disrupt the state&#8217;s unique history and political dynamics, nor does it divide the local population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Umno Information Chief Datuk Suhaimi Nasir has clarified that there is no rule preventing peninsula-based parties from participating in elections in Sabah. According to the FMT, it was highlighted that Umno has a well-established presence in the state and functions autonomously. Suhaimi assured that Umno respects Sabah&#8217;s autonomy and that those from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29325,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323\/revisions\/29325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}