{"id":6113,"date":"2020-09-27T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T07:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2020-09-27T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T07:29:48","slug":"pbs-denies-teaming-up-with-warisan-plus-to-form-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6113","title":{"rendered":"PBS denies teaming up with Warisan Plus to form government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KOTA KINABALU, Sept 27 &#8212; Parti Bersatu Sabah&nbsp;(PBS)&nbsp;has quashed&nbsp;rumours that it is joining forces&nbsp;with Warisan Plus to form the Sabah&nbsp;government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its information chief Datuk Joniston Bangkuai said the baseless claim had been widely circulated&nbsp;on social media following the announcement of the 16th Sabah state election results last night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPBS, as an equal partner in Gabungan Rakyat Sabah\u00a0(GRS), remains firm with its allies &#8211; Perikatan Nasional (PN) and Barisan Nasional (BN),\u201d he said in a statement today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"pbs\" class=\"wp-image-6114\" width=\"484\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-160x100.jpg 160w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-350x219.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-800x500.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joniston also told Bernama it is not true that&nbsp;PBS had started making demands regarding the soon-to-formed state government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This matter had not been discussed so far, said Joniston, who retained the Kiulu seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PBS held a post-mortem on the state election results at the party president\u2019s residence this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PBS contributed seven of the 38 seats won by GRS, which gave the coalition&nbsp;a simple majority to form the state government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warisan Plus, which comprises Warisan, DAP, PKR, UPKO&nbsp;and Amanah,&nbsp;lost the mandate to rule the state when it won 32 of the 73 seats up for grabs in the election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1883912\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU, Sept 27 &#8212; Parti Bersatu Sabah&nbsp;(PBS)&nbsp;has quashed&nbsp;rumours that it is joining forces&nbsp;with Warisan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93.jpg",1110,694,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-300x188.jpg",300,188,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-768x480.jpg",640,400,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93-1024x640.jpg",640,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93.jpg",1110,694,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93.jpg",1110,694,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93.jpg",1110,694,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93.jpg",1024,640,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/9c3d6d436a4b7b236db0c5a66a7f71815f688a8defc93.jpg",720,450,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=20\" rel=\"category\">Local<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6115,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions\/6115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}