Sarawak election will happen when the time comes as there is no state of emergency declared

We fully support the statement made by the Right Honourable Chief Minister of Sarawak Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Abang Haji Openg who said our state election will happen when the time comes as there is no state of emergency declared.

As what he has mentioned, we also hope for the Election Commission (EC) or National Security Council (MKN), to come up with the appropriate Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) that would allow an election to be conducted in a controlled environment so that it would not be dangerous. In fact, the EC will look at what has been implemented in Singapore and in New Zealandin order to get ideas on how to conduct election during this time of Covid-19.

Abang Johari had also pointed out that Sarawak did not have any option, as the state government’s term was coming to an end soon.With no emergency, the government institutions are still functioning as usual and for us in Sarawak because our mandate will end soon. Together with our Chief Minister, we are thankful to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong for giving very good advice to politicians to not to politick too much and to people to stay united in this fight against Covid-19.

“For us in Sarawak, we will abide by the advice.We will continue to do our duty to the people even as we face a situation where our mandate is finishing soon," the Chief Minister was quoted saying by our local media fraternity.