PARTI Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), a member of the Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition, has accepted Puncak Borneo MP Willie Mongin’s application as a member.

Announcing this after chairing PBB’s supreme council meeting in Kuching today, party president Abang Johari Openg said Mongin’s admission into the party will be as an ordinary member and without any commitment.

“(Accepted) as an (ordinary member). That’s all. Don’t embellish it. As an ordinary member, because he (Mongin) supports PBB as a good party,” he told a press conference after the meeting.

Mongin, who is the deputy minister of plantation industries and commodities and a former member of Bersatu, had applied to join PBB earlier this year.

He won the Puncak Borneo seat in 2018 on the PKR ticket but was expelled by the party along with several other MPs in 2020 who were aligned to its then deputy president, Azmin Ali. – Bernama, August 6, 2022.