PH to balance out with BN, GRS political love triangle for the Sabah polls

Pakatan Harapan (PH) would be balancing out its ties with both the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) and Barisan Nasional (BN) in the upcoming Sabah polls which appears to be a “political love triangle”.

“Love can sometimes hurt,” he said with a smile. “But that is the meaning of love, said PH chairman and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in view of the pacts agreed upon by the three coalitions.

Anwar remained hopeful for polls to take place without three cornered fights.

“For now we are trying to secure an arrangement where there is no three-corner fight,” he said.

“But in the case it has to happen, our advice is that probably we will try and refrain from entering this battle to avoid creating division,” he said.

GRS and BN have both declared a pact with PH but are dead set against each other due to the fallout that the two experienced in early 2023.

He also admitted that the present alignment would be confusing to the voters.

“To some areas where there is this conflict, I’m sure it is. This message we have sent to the three parties — PH, BN, and GRS — that our intention is to make sure, if necessary, to secure that sort of understanding, because that is a priority,” he said.

“What is important is for PH to have a constructive goal — to make sure that its presence is to qualify the reformative agenda, and to understand that we need full collaboration of all parties to ensure the stability of a strong state government, which is to me essential to cooperate with the federal government, for the benefit of Sabah and Malaysia,” he said.