PENAMPANG: Although Sabahans are more familiar with Parti Bersatu Sabah’s (PBS) logo, the party will be contesting under the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) banner in the 15th general election (GE15).
Party president Maximus Ongkili said the decision to use the GRS logo was jointly made by the coalition’s component parties, including PBS.
“Certainly (the PBS logo is better known), but this is GRS’ decision, so we abide by that. For the sake of unity, we will use (the GRS logo),” he said when met at the party’s headquarters here.
In the 2020 Sabah state election, PBS used its own logo for the first time in 16 years, going on to win seven seats.
Maximus also said there had yet to be a final word on the distribution of seats among GRS and BN component parties for GE15.
“Even yesterday, (GRS chairman) Hajiji Noor didn’t want to tell and that’s why we don’t know how many seats GRS and Umno will get or where the seats are,” he said.
Yesterday, Hajiji, who is also the Sabah chief minister, chaired a GRS meeting attended by leaders of the coalition’s component parties.
He told reporters that they only discussed the coalition’s cooperation with BN as well as its strategies for GE15.
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