WE continue with the political developments in neighboring Sabah. In the last article, we mentioned a sort of conglomerate of some of the minor opposition parties in Sabah, called the United Sabah Alliance (USA), which appears to want to keep on emphasizing their Sabah origins. It may perhaps be considered overboard to rule out now USA’s amounting to anything (winning any seat) in the coming Malaysian federal and Sabah state elections. But it is safe to say that they will not amount to much, as in definitely not winning enough state assembly seats to form the next Sabah state government, for example. The ruling coalition can indeed take their sweet time in deciding when to hold the next general election, or whether to hold the Sabah state election earlier than the federal one.

Source: Manila Times May 23, 2017 16:52 UTC