Sabah People's Coalition Gabungan Rakyat Sabah | |
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Malay name | Gabungan Rakyat Sabah ݢابوڠن رعيت سابه |
Chinese name | 沙巴人民聯盟 沙巴人民联盟 Sa-pa Jîn-bîn Liân-bêng Saa1 Baa1 Jan4 Man4 Lyun4 Mang4 Shābā rénmín liánméng |
Abbreviation | GRS |
President | GRS Presidential Council (MPGRS) [1] |
Chairman | Hajiji Noor |
Secretary-General | Masidi Manjun |
Deputy Chairman |
Maximus Ongkili Jeffrey Kitingan Yong Teck Lee Pandikar Amin Mulia |
Founder | Hajiji Noor [2] |
Founded | 12 September 2020[3] |
Legalised | 11 March 2022 [2] [4] |
Split from |
Perikatan Nasional (PN) Barisan Nasional (BN) Pakatan Harapan (PH) Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) Heritage Party (WARISAN) |
Preceded by | Gabungan Bersatu Sabah [5] |
Headquarters | Lot 57 G7 Plaza Permai 2 Alamesra 88400 Kota Kinabalu Sabah |
Newspaper | Media Rakyat Kiulu
[6] USNO Online [7] Sabahitz on9 TV [8] The Borneo Post |
Ideology | |
Political position | Centre-right to right-wing |
National affiliation |
BN Sabah (1973–2018, half-member allied since 2020)
[nb 1] Perikatan Nasional (2020–2022) National Unity Government (since 2022) |
Colours | Steel Blue [9] |
Slogan | "Sayangi Sabah" (Love Sabah) "Sabah Maju Jaya" (Let Sabah Prosper) "Sabah First, Sabah Forward, Sabah Prosper, Sabah Unity" (Sabah Diutamakan, Sabah Ke Hadapan, Sabah Sejahtera, Sabah Bersatu) [10] |
Dewan Negara | 2 / 70
|
Dewan Rakyat ( Sabah and Labuan seats) | 6 / 26
|
Sabah State Legislative Assembly | 42 / 79
|
Chief Minister of Sabah | 1 / 1
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Election symbol | |
Party flag | |
Website | |
GRS Official Facebook group | |
Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (abbrev: GRS; English: Sabah People's Alliance), officially Gabungan Rakyat Sabah Party [11] [12] is Malaysian coalition of Sabah-based parties. [13] [4]
On 12 September 2020, Hajiji Noor established an informal alliance named Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) to compete against Shafie Apdal's ruling Warisan Plus coalition consisting of Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN), the Democratic Action Party (DAP), Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), and the United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (UPKO) during the 2020 Sabah state election. The GRS alliance consisted of Muhyiddin's Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition, the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, and Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS). [2] [4]
During the Sabah state election held on 26 September, the alliance won a simple majority in the Sabah State Legislative Assembly, a total of 38 seats: 17 from Perikatan Nasional, 14 from Barisan Nasional, and seven from PBS. [14] Sabah Perikatan Nasional chairman Hajiji Noor became the new Chief Minister of Sabah on 29 September. [15]
Under the new GRS administration, projects that had been stopped by the previous Sabah government were restarted, including the Sabah Pan-Borneo Highway.
On 9 January 2021, the various leaders of Gabungan Rakyat Sabah signed a memorandum of understanding affirming each party's commitment to the alliance, with chief minister Hajiji Noor maintaining that the alliance would remain intact regardless of the political situation on the peninsula. [16] [17]
On 24 November 2021, the alliance's backbenchers club chairperson Salleh Said Keruak floated the idea of registering Gabungan Rakyat Sabah as an official political coalition, arguing it was necessary as a means of strengthening the alliance. [18] The proposal received the support of various party leaders, including Jeffrey Kitingan ( STAR), Masidi Manjun ( Sabah BERSATU), Yong Teck Lee ( SAPP), Bung Mokhtar Radin ( UMNO). [19] [20] [21]
The alliance was officially registered and legalised by the Registrar of Societies on 11 March 2022, [2] with Sabah BERSATU, PBS, STAR, and SAPP as its members. [22]
On 9 May 2022, the United Sabah National Organisation (Baru) (USNO Baru) was admitted as a member of the coalition. [23]
On 25 September 2022, GRS chairman Hajiji Noor announced that the coalition would support Barisan Nasional candidates in the upcoming 2022 Malaysian general election, contrary to Perikatan Nasional, of which both Sabah BERSATU and STAR was a member, which had declared Barisan as its main enemy. [24]
Malaysian United Indigenous Party Sabah, the regional branch of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party, otherwise known as BERSATU, effectively collapsed when all eleven state legislative assemblymen including the party's state chairman Hajiji Noor, and four members of parliament left the party on 10 December 2022. [25] Rumours surfaced that the former members of Sabah BERSATU would take over Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN), [26] [27] which came to pass as Hajiji Noor took over the party on 29 January 2023, with the party itself having been admitted into the coalition earlier on 9 December. [28] [29]
Political analysts regarded Hajiji Noor's decision to leave Sabah BERSATU as a shrewd, [4] with Romzi Ationg commenting that the transformation of the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah coalition into a purely Sabah-based entity had been long awaited by the local population. [30]
However, as a result of the parliamentary anti-hopping law, the four former Sabah BERSATU members of parliament could not join Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah. They instead became direct members of the coalition, [31] allowed by the coalition.
Logo | Name | Ideology | Sabah leader(s) | Seats contested |
2022 result | ||||
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Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||||
Member parties | |||||||||
GRS | Sabah People's Coalition (Direct members) Keahlian terus Gabungan Rakyat Sabah [32] |
Sabah regionalism | Armizan Mohd. Ali | 6 | 0.61% | 4 / 222
| |||
GAGASAN |
Sabah People's Ideas Party Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah [33] |
Hajiji Noor | 0 | 0.00% | 0 / 222
| ||||
PBS |
United Sabah Party Parti Bersatu Sabah [34] |
Maximus Johnity Ongkili | 4 | 0.42% | 1 / 222
| ||||
SAPP |
Sabah Progressive Party Parti Maju Sabah [35] |
Yong Teck Lee | 1 | 0.03% | 0 / 222
| ||||
STAR |
Homeland Solidarity Party Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku [36] |
Jeffrey Kitingan | 2 | 0.19% | 1 / 222
| ||||
USNO |
United Sabah National Organisation (New) Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Sabah Bersatu (Baru) [37] |
Pandikar Amin Mulia | 0 | 0% | 0 / 222
| ||||
PHRS |
Sabah People's Hope Party Parti Harapan Rakyat Sabah [38] |
Liew Yun Fah | 0 | 0% | 0 / 222
| ||||
LDP |
Liberal Democratic Party Parti Liberal Demokratik [39] [40] |
Chin Su Phin | 0 | 0% | 0 / 222
|
Logo | Name | Ideology | Sabah leader(s) | Seats contested |
2020 result | Current seats | |||
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Votes (%) | Seats | ||||||||
Member parties | |||||||||
GRS | Sabah People's Coalition (Direct members) Keahlian terus Gabungan Rakyat Sabah [32] |
Sabah regionalism | Hajiji Noor | 21 (under PN) |
11.81% | 14 / 73
|
1 / 79
| ||
GAGASAN |
Sabah People's Ideas Party Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah [41] |
Hajiji Noor | 28 | 0.51% | 0 / 73
|
26 / 79
| |||
PBS |
United Sabah Party Parti Bersatu Sabah [34] |
Maximus Johnity Ongkili | 22 | 6.83% | 7 / 73
|
7 / 79
| |||
SAPP |
Sabah Progressive Party Parti Maju Sabah [35] |
Yong Teck Lee | 2 (under PN) |
0.43% | 0 / 73
|
1 / 79
| |||
STAR |
Homeland Solidarity Party Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku [36] |
Jeffrey Kitingan | 6 (under PN) |
4.87% | 6 / 73
|
6 / 79
| |||
USNO |
United Sabah National Organisation (New) Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Sabah Bersatu (Baru) [37] |
Pandikar Amin Mulia | 47 | 1.21% | 0 / 73
|
0 / 79
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PHRS |
Sabah People's Hope Party Parti Harapan Rakyat Sabah [42] |
Liew Yun Fah | 5 | 0.60% | 0 / 73
|
1 / 79
| |||
LDP |
Liberal Democratic Party Parti Liberal Demokratik [42] [43] |
Chin Su Phin | 46 | 1.70% | 0 / 73
|
0 / 79
|
Founder | Year | ||
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Hajiji Noor | 2022 (as registered political coalition) |
Leader | Took office | Left office | ||
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1 |
Hajiji Noor (inaugural chairman holder) |
2020–2021 (Unofficial) 11 March 2022 (Official) |
11 December 2022 | |
2 | Hajiji Noor [46] | 12 December 2022 | 29 January 2023 | |
3 | Hajiji Noor [29] | 29 January 2023 | Incumbent |
Gabungan Rakyat Sabah Party has 6 MPs in the House of Representatives.
State | No. | Parliament Constituency | Member | Party | ||
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Sabah | P175 | Papar | Armizan Mohd Ali | GRS | ||
P178 | Sipitang | Matbali Musah | GRS | |||
P179 | Ranau | Jonathan Yasin | GRS | |||
P180 | Keningau | Jeffrey Kitingan | STAR | |||
P185 | Batu Sapi | Khairul Firdaus Akbar Khan | GRS | |||
P190 | Tawau | Lo Su Fui | PBS | |||
Total | Sabah (6) |
Sabah State Legislative Assembly
State | No. | Parliamentary Constituency | No. | State Constituency | Member | Party | |
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Sabah | P167 | Kudat | N01 | Banggi | Mohammad Mohamarin | GAGASAN | |
N03 | Pitas | Ruddy Awah | GAGASAN | ||||
N04 | Tanjong Kapor | Ben Chong Chen Bin | GAGASAN | ||||
P168 | Kota Marudu | N05 | Matunggong | Julita Mojungki | PBS | ||
N07 | Tandek | Hendrus Anding | PBS | ||||
P169 | Kota Belud | N08 | Pintasan | Fairuz Renddan | GAGASAN | ||
N09 | Tempasuk | Mohd Arshad Bistari | GAGASAN | ||||
P170 | Tuaran | N12 | Sulaman | Hajiji Noor | GAGASAN | ||
N13 | Pantai Dalit | Jasnih Daya | GAGASAN | ||||
N14 | Tamparuli | Jahid Jahim | PBS | ||||
N15 | Kiulu | Joniston Bangkuai | PBS | ||||
P173 | Putatan | N23 | Petagas | Awang Ahmad Sah Awang Sahari | GAGASAN | ||
P175 | Papar | N27 | Limbahau | Juil Nuatim | GRS | ||
N28 | Kawang | Ghulam Haidar Khan Bahadar | GAGASAN | ||||
P176 | Kimanis | N31 | Membakut | Mohd. Arifin Mohd. Arif | GAGASAN | ||
P177 | Beaufort | N32 | Klias | Isnin Aliasnih | GAGASAN | ||
N33 | Kuala Penyu | Limus Jury | GAGASAN | ||||
P178 | Sipitang | N34 | Lumadan | Ruslan Muharam | PBS | ||
N35 | Sindumin | Yusof Yacob | GAGASAN | ||||
P179 | Ranau | N36 | Kundasang | Joachim Gunsalam | PBS | ||
N37 | Karanaan | Masidi Manjun | GAGASAN | ||||
N38 | Paginatan | Abidin Madingkir | STAR | ||||
P180 | Keningau | N39 | Tambunan | Jeffrey Kitingan | STAR | ||
N40 | Bingkor | Robert Tawik | STAR | ||||
N41 | Liawan | Anuar Ayub @ Banand | STAR | ||||
P181 | Tenom | N43 | Kemabong | Rubin Balang | GAGASAN | ||
P182 | Pensiangan | N44 | Tulid | Flovia Ng | STAR | ||
N45 | Sook | Ellron Alfred Angin | STAR | ||||
N46 | Nabawan | Abd. Ghani Mohd. Yassin | GAGASAN | ||||
P183 | Beluran | N47 | Telupid | Jonnybone J. Kurum | PBS | ||
N48 | Sugut | James Ratib | GAGASAN | ||||
N49 | Labuk | Samad Jambri | GAGASAN | ||||
P185 | Batu Sapi | N54 | Karamunting | Hiew Vun Zin | GAGASAN | ||
P187 | Kinabatangan | N57 | Kuamut | Masiung Banah | GAGASAN | ||
P188 | Lahad Datu | N63 | Kunak | Norazlinah Arif | GAGASAN | ||
P190 | Tawau | N67 | Balung | Hamid Awang | GAGASAN | ||
N68 | Apas | Nizam Abu Bakar Titingan | GAGASAN | ||||
P191 | Kalabakan | N71 | Kukusan | Rina Jainal | PHRS | ||
N73 | Sebatik | Hassan A. Gani Pg. Amir | GAGASAN | ||||
- | Nominated Member | Jaffari Walliam | GAGASAN | ||||
Nominated Member | Yong Teck Lee | SAPP | |||||
Nominated Member | Amisah Yassin | GAGASAN | |||||
Total | Sabah (42) |
Portfolio | Office Bearer | Party | Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Minister of Domestic Trade and Costs of Living | Datuk Armizan Mohd. Ali MP | GRS | Papar |
Portfolio | Office Bearer | Party | Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture | Khairul Firdaus Akbar Khan MP | GRS | Batu Sapi |
Election | Total seats won | Seats contested | Total votes | Voting Percentage | Outcome of election | Election leader |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | 6 / 222
|
13 | 194,324 | 1.25% | 4 seats; Governing coalition (Gabungan Rakyat Sabah) |
Hajiji Noor |
Sabah state election | Total seats won | Seats contested | Total votes | Voting Percentage | Outcome of election | Election leader |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020 | 24 / 73
|
51 | 175,056 | 23.94% | 1 seat; State governing coalition (Gabungan Rakyat Sabah) |
Hajiji Noor |
State | Leader type | Member | Party | State Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sabah | Chief Minister | Hajiji Noor | GAGASAN | Sulaman |
State | Leader type | Member | Party | State Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sabah | Deputy Chief Minister I | Jeffrey Kitingan | STAR | Tambunan | |
Sabah | Deputy Chief Minister II | Joachim Gunsalam | PBS | Kundasang |
State | Leader type | Member | Party | State Constituency | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sabah | Deputy Speaker II | Richard Yong We Kong | SAPP | Non-MLA |
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