Amendment to Federal Constitution of Malaysia to restore Sabah and Sarawak to  equal partners status with Malaya and the amendment is just restructuring the sentence without changing the meaning or the existing status of Sabah and Sarawak against the wishes of Sabah and Sarawak people. This is clearly a political scam.

Article 1 (2) amendment Bill ‘totally unacceptable’ to Sarawak – SUPP reported by The Borneo Post

KUCHING: Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) president Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian said the Bill to amend Article 1 (2) of the Federal Constitution was “totally unacceptable” to Sarawak.

Its president Datuk Dr Sim Kui Hian said the Bill was unacceptable because the proposed amendment maintained Sarawak as one of the 13 states in Malaysia, instead of one of the three equal partner States to the Federation of Malaysia.

Dr Sim, who is Local Government and Housing Minister, said the party viewed the amendment Bill as the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government’s another failure to honour the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).

“In fact PH has just made another ‘U turn’ on their election promise to return Sabah and Sarawak’s status as accorded in MA63,” he added.

Dr Sim asked: “Why bother to table an amendment Bill when the return of Sarawak’s autonomy in healthcare and education as promised by PH is nowhere to be found? Where is the amendment to Article 160 to make Malaysia a federation under the MA63, instead of the Federation of Malaya Agreement 1957? Where are Sarawak’s substantial entitlement to a third of national resources and a third in the house of representatives in the proposed Bill?”

Therefore, SUPP demanded for the Bill to be withdrawn as the content of the Bill is against the wishes of the people of Sarawak.

“With such a disappointing amendment tabled by the PH government, we verily believe that the status of our State should be decided by our people in Sarawak, and not in the parliament.”