Defections, u-turns and pre-emptions, oh my!


Hanging in there: Shafie at a campaign stop in the run-up to the Kimanis by-election in January. Amidst talk of defecting assemblymen and money politics, Sabah’s Chief Minister seems unfazed. — ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE/The Star

In Sabah politics, what goes around comes around.

“X HAS signed SD (a statutory declaration) supporting Perikatan Nasional in Sabah. That’s 31 SDs. We just need two more to bring down the Sabah government, ” a political operative from Sabah told me.

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