The Barisan Nasional management committee has recommended that the problematic Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) be de-registered after concluding that there is no way the two factions in the party could work together, it is learnt today.

According to a reliable source, this was decided upon after the BN management committee meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and BN deputy chief Najib Abdul Razak in Putrajaya this afternoon.

"There is a basis for de-registration," a political aide to a Sarawak BN component party president told malaysiakini this afternoon.

From Sarawak, PBB was represented at the meeting by its senior vice-president Adenan Satem, Supp by vice-president Peter Chin and SPDP by its president William Mawan.

According to the source, BN secretary-general Radzi Sheikh Ahmad tabled a report on the PBDS problems that had led to the proposal to hold its party elections scheduled on Oct 9-10 being dropped.

The meeting was told there was little prospects of any reconciliation now as the two factions are totally "torn apart" after three years of internal strife.

No compromise at all

The Dayak-based party was de-registered in December last year after the two factions held their separate party elections which the Registrar of Societies subsequently found were invalid.

When the faction led by party president Daniel Tajem (pix) appealed on behalf of the party against the ROS' decision, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi reinstated the party but on condition that BN-supervised party elections be held to choose a new set of leaders.

After the TDC dates were fixed, the two factions could not even agree on the delegates list, with the Tajem raising legal and constitutional issues as their grounds for objections.

The source told malaysiakini that as there seems to be little prospect of the two groups ever coming to a compromise and since the party's reinstatement is conditional, it will be better to de-register the party and find other solutions to accommodate its 14 elected representatives.

"The BN leadership is probably fed up. The matter has dragged on for so long without any solution in sight," he added.