Academics Afi Roshezry Abu Bakar and Adi Wira Mohd Zin analyze GPS’s decision to contest all 82 Sarawak state seats, highlighting the boundaries between federal partnership and state-level competition.
GABUNGAN Parti Sarawak’s decision to contest all 82 state seats sends Pakatan Harapan a clear message: cooperation in Putrajaya does not confer electoral entitlement in Sarawak.
GPS spokesperson Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah’s rejection of collaboration with peninsula-based parties makes this boundary explicit. PH may be a federal partner, but it remains a state-level competitor.
Politically, this is a significant rebuff. Analytically, however, describing it merely as a humiliation understates its implications.
