00:00A Sabah MCA leader urged federal leaders to stop treating Sabah as a chessboard or risk
00:06jeopardizing Barca Nacional and Pakistan Harapan's chances in the coming polls.
00:11Pamela Young, chief of the party's women's wing in Sabah, said pronouncements should
00:16not be made from an ivory tower far removed from the nuances of local political dynamics.
00:22Young was responding to UMNO Supreme Council member Ahmad Mazlan's claim that BN would
00:26contest rural seats in Sabah while PH focused on urban areas.
00:32She called the strategy overly simplistic and Ahmad's statement as haughty, stressing that
00:37unity must come through honest negotiation and mutual respect on the ground.
00:42Young noted that Gabunan Rakyat Sabah and Sabah PH have made more meaningful progress in negotiations
00:47compared to the patchy talks between Sabah BN and Sabah PH.
00:50She warned that without strategic seat allocations, BN and PH risk multi-cornered fights that
00:57could hand victories to opposition parties.
01:01Young said BN's strategy must be locally driven, not dictated from Putrajaya, or else it risks
01:06repeating past mistakes and losing both seats and public confidence.
01:11Danish Rajareza, FMT.
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