UPP totally against hudud implementation, says Wong

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Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh

SIBU: United People’s Party’s (UPP) is totally against the implementation of hudud Law, said its president Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh who sees Sarawak DAP’s severing of relationship with Pakatan Rakyat (PR) as mere political expediency.

Sarawak DAP chairman Chong Chieng Jen had declared that they would be leaving the PR coalition.

Wong, who is Second Finance Minister and Minister of Local Government and Community Development, reckoned the move by DAP was to woo Chinese voters with the state election coming.

“This is a political expediency. They hope to pacify the Chinese community in Sarawak because most of their support is from urban constituencies.

“Our stand is very strong and UPP as a party is deadly against the implementation of hudud law,” he told a press conference here on Friday.

The senior minister added it was pointless for the Peninsula-based opposition party to sever its relationship with PR at the state level only.

“It should be nationwide DAP as a whole. Otherwise, it is meaningless. All along, to me, (DAP) leaving PR is only a political expediency – it means nothing. They might in the past join together and had strengthened the PR group.

“This in a way had indirectly strengthened PAS so that they grew strong enough, they could implement this hudud Law.

“So, the fact that, they (DAP) only severed the relation, only state (DAP) leaving (PR), should not be the case…In fact, they kept assuring Sarawakians before both parliamentary and state elections, they would never allow PAS to implement the hudud Law and would prevent it from happening.

“Now, they fail to put a stop to it,” he said.

He reiterated his suggestion that the group coming together and breaking away was only political expediency.

“Who knows a few months later, they will come together again. This is the way they strategise, hoping to win votes,” Wong said.