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KOTA KINABALU: Parti Warisan Sabah is repositioning itself as a national party with a call for Malaysian unity as the way forward, says its chairman Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal (Photo).
The four-year-old party is ready to approve the extension of its wings to Peninsular Malaysia as the party wants the Borneo states to be part of the decision-making for the nation.
“We must be brave. We must chart the way forward, ”Shafie told delegates meeting for the first time after the party lost power in the state to the federally backed Gabungan Rakyat Sabah in state elections on September 26.
Explaining that the Warisan Plus kind of unity policy for the nation’s development, regardless of race, culture or religion, was widely supported among Malaysian peers on the peninsula, Shafie said it set a new framework for that the opposition will work together towards change in the next general election. .
Insinuating the need for changes in the leadership of the national opposition, Shafie said; “There were those who said that there was no need to change the national leadership of the Opposition as it was known throughout the world.
“They (opposition leaders) have been in the political arena so long that they have forgotten that the people want real change,” he said.
He said that no one thought the United States would have a President Barack Obama from the African-American community and, more recently, Kamala Harris, who is of black and Asian descent, was elected vice president.
“They are young and unknown, but people brought changes to established practices,” he told delegates.
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