Sarawak United Peoples' Party
| Sarawak United Peoples' Party Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak 砂拉越人民联合党 |
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| Leader | Peter Chin Fah Kui |
| Founded | 1959 |
| Headquarters | Kuching, Sarawak |
| Newspaper | SA 'ATI (United) |
| Youth wing | SUPP Youth Section |
| Ideology | Centralism, Nationalism |
| National affiliation | Barisan Nasional |
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The Sarawak United Peoples' Party, or SUPP (Chinese: 砂拉越人民联合党; Malay: Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak) is a political party in Malaysia. The party is one of the constituent members of the ruling Barisan Nasional. It was established in 1959 mainly by leftists and working class Chinese, many of whom were members of the underground communist movement in Sarawak.
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[edit] History
For the first decade of its existence, many of its members were deported from Sarawak for communist activities. Several of its senior members moved across the border into Kalimantan where they took up arms against the Sarawak government.
In the early 1960s, SUPP opposed the formation of the Malaysian state. Along with Partai Rakyat Brunei and National Pasok Momogun Party, SUPP sent a memorandum to the United Nations demanding that the people of Northern Borneo be given right to self-determination and that the status of the area would be decided in a plebiscite.[1]
The future of the SUPP remains uncertain after its unsuccessful performance in the Sarawak State Election held in April 2011, in which it lost most of the seats that it contested.
[edit] Party members and leadership structure
[edit] SUPP Members of the 12th Parliament of Malaysia
- Sarawak
- P196 - Stampin - Yong Khoon Seng
- P199 - Serian - Richard Riot Jaem
- P208 - Sarikei - Ding Kuong Hiing
- P211 - Lanang - Tiong Thai King
- P219 - Miri - Peter Chin Fah Kui
In the Malaysian general election, 2008, SUPP managed to retain all of the seats it won previously. Compared to Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia and Malaysian Chinese Association, the party defended most of its Chinese majority seats from falling to the opposition, losing only the Bandar Kuching Parliamentary seat to the Democratic Action Party.[2]
On April 9, 2010, Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew, Member of Parliament of Sibu, and also Vice-President of the Party, died due to liver cancer. Deputy Secretary-General of SUPP, Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh had announced that they are ready for the upcoming by-election. They nominated Robert Lau's cousin, Robert Lau Hui Yew to contest for the Sibu by-election on 16 May 2010.
The current president of the party is Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam who is also the Deputy Chief Minister of the state of Sarawak.
[edit] References
- ^ Why Indonesia Opposes British-Made "Malaysia.". Djakarta: Govt. of the Republic of Indonesia, 1964. p. 60
- ^ " S’wak ‘shields’ balance ", The Borneo Post. August 30, 1998.
[edit] Notes
- Chin, Ung Ho. 1997. Chinese Politics in Sarawak: a Study of the Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 983-56-0039-2
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