Peter Chin wants stop to smear tactics in SUPP polls
Published: Nov 17, 2011 10:24 AM | Updated: Nov 17, 2011 10:26 AM
Candidates involved in the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) branch elections should refrain from employing image-tarnishing tactics against their opponents in their campaigns, party organising secretary Peter Chin said in Miri today.
Candidates involved in the Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) branch elections should refrain from employing image-tarnishing tactics against their opponents in their campaigns, party organising secretary Peter Chin said in Miri today.
He said the candidates should instead focus on explaining what they could do to strengthen the party upon being elected rather than embark on personal attacks on their rivals.
“Any campaigning should be kept to the minimum and candidates should be judged based on what they can do for the party (once they have won),” he told a press conference.
Chin’s (right) advice came at the height of intense campaigning for the elections in the party’s 43 branches statewide which will be held at their respective annual general meetings this Sunday.
“I don’t mind if it can promote healthy competition but it will not help us to win the (state or parliamentary) election if there is too much fault-finding or washing dirty linen in public,” he said.
Chin, who had already announced his intention to contest the party president post at the SUPP coming triennial delegates assembly this December, said it would be difficult to reunite all the members if personal agendas prevailed even in the branch elections.
He said it was for this reason that he mentioned no other leader in the party to be his running mate in the contest, where he would be challenged by the party’s deputy secretary-general, Wong Soon Koh.
Nevertheless, he said, his ability to implement the party’s transformation plan would still rest on the support of like-minded members and leaders.
While admitting that the party election this year was the most intense that he had ever experienced since becoming a SUPP member in 1978, Chin said what he hoped was the contest would further strengthen the party.
“I want to see all our members rally behind the party and be truly united after the party election is over,” he added.
- Bernama
He said the candidates should instead focus on explaining what they could do to strengthen the party upon being elected rather than embark on personal attacks on their rivals.
“Any campaigning should be kept to the minimum and candidates should be judged based on what they can do for the party (once they have won),” he told a press conference.
Chin’s (right) advice came at the height of intense campaigning for the elections in the party’s 43 branches statewide which will be held at their respective annual general meetings this Sunday.“I don’t mind if it can promote healthy competition but it will not help us to win the (state or parliamentary) election if there is too much fault-finding or washing dirty linen in public,” he said.
Chin, who had already announced his intention to contest the party president post at the SUPP coming triennial delegates assembly this December, said it would be difficult to reunite all the members if personal agendas prevailed even in the branch elections.
He said it was for this reason that he mentioned no other leader in the party to be his running mate in the contest, where he would be challenged by the party’s deputy secretary-general, Wong Soon Koh.
Nevertheless, he said, his ability to implement the party’s transformation plan would still rest on the support of like-minded members and leaders.
While admitting that the party election this year was the most intense that he had ever experienced since becoming a SUPP member in 1978, Chin said what he hoped was the contest would further strengthen the party.
“I want to see all our members rally behind the party and be truly united after the party election is over,” he added.
- Bernama
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