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Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan) (The Sabah Heritage Party): A serious Challenge to BN…

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When part of Mount Kinabalu collapsed on 21 October 2017 after continuous rain, I posted: Was the partial collapse of Mt Kinabalu the sign of the collapse of BN in Sabah and the rise of Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan)?

GE 14 and the events that followed proved me right, and now, on 13 December 2018, we might see the near collapse of Umno Sabah.

My post has been renamed: Was the partial collapse of Mt Kinabalu the sign of the collapse of BN in Sabah and the rise of Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan)? Yes! And not only has BN been defeated, we now see Sabah Umno almost decimated…

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The Sabah Heritage Party or Malay: Parti Warisan Sabah is a Sabah-based-opposition party. The party was formed in 17 October 2016, founded by Darrell Leiking and Shafie Apdal. The party was formerly named as Parti Pembangunan Warisan Sabah.
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2018

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Is it the end of the road for Umno Sabah?

12 December 2018

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KOTA KINABALU: Signs could be pointing to the death of Umno Sabah as nine of its assemblymen and five of its Member of Parliaments (MPs) have left the party, with immediate effect.

Former Umno Sabah chief Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Hajiji Haji Noor made the announcement at a press conference at 1.30pm today.

Two senators and 21 Division Chiefs have also left the party.

All the members who have left Umno are now independents.

Only Tan Sri Musa Aman (Sungai Sibuga assemblyman) and Datuk Bung Moktar Radin (Kinabatangan MP) are still with the party.

LIST OF SABAH UMNO LEADERS LEAVING THE PARTY:

A. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
1. YB Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun
2. YB Datuk Seri Ronald Kiandee
3. YB Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri
4. YB Datuk Zakaria Edris
5. YB Hafez Yamani Musa

B. ASSEMBLYMEN
1. YB Datuk Seri Panglima Hajiji Mohd Noor
2. YB Datuk Seri Panglima Masidi Manjun
3. YB Datuk Japlin Akim
4. YB Datuk Musbah Jamli
5. YB Datuk Gullam Haidar Khan
6. YB Datuk Arifin Arif
7. YB Datuk Isnin Aliasnih
8. YB Matbali Hj Musah
9. YB Datuk Nizam Titingan

C. SENATORS
1. YB Datuk Ghani Yassin
2. YB Datuk John Ambrose

D. DIVISIONAL CHIEFS
1. Datuk Gurahman Hj Lolong
2. Datuk Wetrom Bahanda
3. Datuk Seri Panglima Salleh Said Keruak
4. Datuk Seri Panglima Hajiji Mohd Noor
5. Datuk Faisyal Deigo
6. Datuk John Ambrose
7. Datuk Seri Panglima Rahim Ismail
8. Datuk Arifin Arif (acting)
9. Datuk Isnin Aliasnih
10. Datuk Sapawi Ahmad
11. Datuk Ghani Yassin
12. Datuk Sairin Karno
13. Samad Jambri
14. Datuk Awang Kadin
15. Firdaus Akbar Khan
16. Abdul Hakim Sidek
17. Datuk Ramlee Marhaban
18. Datuk Nizam Titingan
19. Datuk Juslie Ajirul
20. Datuk Arsit Sedi
21. Datuk Seri Panglima Masidi Manjun

E. HAVE NOT DECIDED
1. Datuk Yakub Khan
2. Datuk Raime Unggi
3. Karim Wahid (overseas)
4. Datuk Seri Panglima Bung Moktar Radin (Stay with Umno)

http://www.theborneopost.com/2018/12/12/14-umno-sabah-reps-leave-party/

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Shafie Apdal remains Chief Minister of Sabah…

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The Chief Minister of Sabah: Shafie Apdal of The Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan) (The Sabah Heritage Party)…

13 May 2018

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Shafie Apdal is the lawful chief minister of Sabah

COMMENT | It has been three days since a momentous GE14, yet the storm in the Land Below the Wind has yet to subside. In the 60-member assembly, Sabah BN won 29 seats while Warisan and Pakatan Harapan combined also won 29 seats.

The 2 remaining seats were won by Star, led by Jeffrey Kitingan, thus becoming king-makers in Sabah.

In a dramatic turn of events, Star – which was initially opposition-aligned – joined Sabah BN to form the state government.

Despite the widespread anger, on May 10, Musa Aman was sworn-in as the Sabah chief minister. The state cabinet was appointed on May 11 and quite coincidentally, Jeffrey Kitingan was appointed a deputy chief minister.

Before Musa Aman has even warmed the chief minister’s seat, it was later confirmed that six Sabah BN assemblypersons had joined Warisan and Pakatan Harapan.

Such is the zero-sum game of politics – Shafie Apdal as the de facto head of Warisan and Pakatan Harapan had thereby obtained a comfortable 35 member-majority in the Sabah state assembly.

Yesterday, Shafie Apdal was sworn in as chief minister before the Yang di-Pertua Negeri Juhar Mahiruddin. Importantly, it was reported that the Yang di-Pertua Negeri had asked Musa Aman to resign beforehand.

To date, Musa Aman and his cabinet have not resigned from office.

To many people, Musa Aman has not been “officially” removed as chief minister and thus Shafie Apdal’s appointment is questionable. A constitutional puzzle of having two concurrent chief ministers befuddles the citizenry.

How do we resolve this? In this respect, Article 7(1) of the Sabah State Constitution is crucial and reads: “If the chief minister ceases to command the confidence of a majority of the members of the legislative assembly, then, unless at his request the Yang di-Pertua Negeri dissolves the assembly, the chief minister shall tender the resignation of the members of the cabinet.”

Two critical questions arise. Question 1: Can Musa Aman’s loss of confidence be determined by the Yang di-Pertua Negeri in his own judgment, or must it be done by a vote in the Sabah state legislative assembly?

Question 2: If the former can be done, and such a loss of confidence has been established and accepted by the Yang di-Pertua Negeri, can Musa Aman and his cabinet be deemed to have resigned with immediate effect, thus paving way for Shafie Apdal?
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Thus, to answer Question 1, the Yang di-Pertua Negeri is capable of determining himself that Musa Aman had lost the confidence of the majority – it need not be expressed by a vote in the Sabah state legislative assembly.

As for Question 2, the Federal Court in Nizar Jamaluddin held: “Similarly here, on the literal interpretation of Art. XVI(6), we are of the view that the word ‘shall’ should be given a mandatory effect. Therefore, it is incumbent upon the appellant in the circumstances of this case to tender the resignation of the executive council. The term Executive Council by definition includes the MB. (See art. XVI(2)).
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In short, once the Yang di-Pertua Negeri accepts in his own judgment that Musa Aman has lost the confidence of the majority, and has further asked him to resign, Musa Aman and his cabinet are legally deemed to have resigned with immediate effect.

As such, there was no chief minister and cabinet before Shafie Apdal’s appointment on May 12.

As night follows day, Shafie Apdal is therefore constitutionally and legitimately appointed as Sabah chief minister.

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LIM WEI JIET is an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and deputy chair of the Bar Council’s constitutional law committee.

The views expressed here are those of the author/contributor and do not necessarily represent the views of Malaysiakini.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/424586

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2017

When Shapie Apdal left Umno to form Warisan, 90% of the members in Umno’s 485 branches in Sabah went with him. It left Umno paralysed in the state.

https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/19534/

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22 October 2017

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Anger brews in Shafie’s Semporna

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Desmond Davidson Updated 10 hours ago · Published on 22 Oct 2017 10:58AM ·

IT is like any other weekend in Semporna, stronghold of Parti Warisan Sabah president Shafie Apdal.

People are going about their business in the small but tourist-filled east coast town that is the gateway to diving and snorkelling havens Sipadan, Mabul, Kapalai, and Mataking.

There are no signs of discontent in the town of some 130,000 people even as Shafie, a man that has made a big impact on their lives, was arrested by graft-busters from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in Kota Kinabalu.

MACC is investigating alleged siphoning of RM1.5 billion of public funds meant for projects in rural Sabah that allegedly occurred when Shafie was rural and regional development minister.

“You won’t see open discontent anywhere,” businessman Dato Hisham Fattah said as he sipped his favourite Tenom coffee in a small coffeeshop.

“But it’s simmering. Just below the surface, you can say,” Hisham said, as his MP of five terms was on Friday remanded for four days.

“The people are angry alright. Very angry even though we knew, and had been warned that such a day will come after he left Umno and formed Warisan.

“They have been told to expect Umno to pick on Shafie and to try to break up the support for him.

“That day has come just as Datuk Seri (Shafie) said it would,” Hisham, who is Warisan deputy information chief, said.

Support for Shafie is near fanatical in Semporna, the town where six policemen were killed in a botched raid to arrest a wayward Suluk imam in 2013.
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“There is a time for everything.

“We don’t want to provoke the authorities like by holding a rally or demonstration. Probably that’s what the people in Umno had hoped we’d do, but we told them (Shafie’s supporters) to show their anger and displeasure in the ballot box later,” Hisham said.

https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/19534/

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