{"id":8924,"date":"2021-12-19T11:44:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T03:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2021-12-19T18:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T10:40:19","slug":"sarawakians-prefer-local-parties-salleh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/12\/19\/sarawakians-prefer-local-parties-salleh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarawakians Prefer Local Parties &#8211; Salleh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: The just concluded Sarawak state election proved that Sarawakians preferred local party coalitions &#8211; Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) and local party &#8211; Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB), and rejected national party coalition &#8211; Pakatan Harapan (PH), said former Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My highest congratulations to GPS for their tremendous success in forming the new Sarawak State Government (76 out of 82 seats). <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This shows that party-based democracy is the cornerstone for continued political prosperity,&#8221; he said in his latest Facebook posting,<\/p>\n<p>Salleh said political competition between parties, rather than individuals, for a mandate is the key to stability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is because the winning party or coalition would be able to determine who forms the new government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU: The just concluded Sarawak state election proved that Sarawakians preferred local party coalitions &#8211; Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) and local party &#8211; Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB), and rejected national party coalition &#8211; Pakatan Harapan (PH), said former Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak &#8220;My highest congratulations to GPS for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8924","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\/8924","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=8924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8941,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8924\/revisions\/8941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}