KOTA KINABALU: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is sticking to the coalition’s separate pacts with Barisan Nasional and the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS).
“We are working with Pakatan Harapan and GRS. That is our stand,” the Pakatan Harapan chairman told reporters when asked about the electoral pacts among the unity government parties.
However, the Prime Minister said discussions were still ongoing with GRS led by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor.
Pakatan and Sabah Barisan, led by Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin, have more or less settled on a seat-sharing formula for the state election.
However, it is understood that Pakatan and GRS have yet to come to any terms of an electoral pact.
Sabah Barisan and GRS have mutually agreed not to work with each other, and their candidates are expected to clash in seats not contested by Pakatan.
The current five-year term of the Sabah assembly is due to end by Nov 11, and Hajiji is expected to call it before then.
Two other unity government partners at the federal level, Parti Warisan led by Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal and Parti KDM led by deputy acting president Pricilla Peter, the daughter of its jailed party president Datuk Peter Anthony, have decided to go into the state elections on their own.
