PARTI Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (Gagasan Rakyat) is confident that cooperation between Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) and the state’s Pakatan Harapan (PH) could lead to success for the coalition in the next state election. 

Sabah Chief Minister Hajiji Noor, who is also Gagasan Rakyat’s president, said this confidence was based on the increasing acceptance and support from people towards Gagasan Rakyat as a component party under GRS. 

“Therefore, I urge Gagasan Rakyat leaders at every division to organise the party machinery well and ensure a strong party before the state legislative assembly is dissolved. 

“I believe with the response and our achievement in establishing thousands of (party) branches and divisions across Sabah, coupled with the cooperation between GRS and PH, InsyaAllah, we will succeed in the next state election,” he said today. 

Hajiji said even though Gagasan Rakyat has good support from Sabah folk, the party still needed the cooperation of its allies to govern and develop the state. 

The party, which was formed to fulfil the aspirations of Sabahan residents, has nearly 300,000 members and 73 divisions statewide, he added. 

“They want us to focus on local parties like in Sarawak, but this does not mean we don’t want to collaborate with national parties,” he said. 

GRS also includes Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku, Sabah Progressive Party, United Sabah National Organisation, Parti Harapan Rakyat Sabah, and Liberal Democratic Party.  

In a separate ceremony, Hajiji handed over 421 native land grants involving 790.37ha of land, to residents from 15 villages in Tongod. 

Hajiji said of the number, 343 grants are the result of the Sabah Native Land Services Programme and 78 grants come from the regular land application process. – Bernama, September 23, 2023.