BELAGA, Feb 29 — Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Openg today said Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) will support any national coalition to form the new federal government in the interest of the country and state.

“If there is any decision to be made, our leaders in GPS will decide the national interest as number one, and secondly, the rights of Sarawak,” he said at the launch of GPS Belaga zone here.

He admitted that there are two sides that have been competing to get GPS support to form the federal government.

Abang Johari pointed out that GPS does not want leaders who are indecisive.

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“We don’t leaders who keep on their changing their minds. First to the right, then to the left, then right, then left again.

“There is no such thing as turning to left or to the right, for the people of Sarawak.

“When we make decisions, we stand by it,” said Abang Johari, who is also GPS chairman.

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“If they ask us to support them, we will support because we want to save Malaysia. Malaysia is now on shaky ground.

“The economic situation is shaky, the top national leadership is shaky. But luckily, we in Sarawak are not shaky. GPS is not shaky.

“But if we are forced to make a decision, we will give priority to saving Malaysia. We want to save Malaysia first. Malaysia is in a political crisis.

“Secondly, we give priority to state’s rights. If you want Sarawak to support you, then you must pay the state’s sales tax,” he said, referring to one of the conditions for giving the support.

The state government has filed a court case to compel Petroliam Nasional Berhad (Petronas) to pay the 5 per cent sales tax on the export of petroleum products in Sarawak

Abang Johari said the state governments also wants the state’s rights, which have been eroded and surrendered to Putrajaya, to be returned to Sarawak.

“We also want Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) to be respected and we want what has been agreed to under MA63 to be carried out,” he said.

Abang Johari took a swipe at a certain party which had alleged that Sarawak would go bankrupt in three years’ time.

Without being specific, he was obviously referring to DAP secretary-general and former Minister of Finance Lim Guan Eng who, at a DAP dinner here recently claimed that Sarawak would go bankrupt because of the huge allocation under the state Budget 2019.

“Now, they (Pakatan Harapan) want us to help them. It is stupid of us to help such people,” he said, noting that many federal-funded projects in Sarawak, which were approved by the previous Barisan Nasional government, were cancelled by the Pakatan federal government.

“As long as GPS is the state government, we have to be careful because the said party (DAP) wants to capture Sarawak, accusing us of not being able to administer our state,” he said.