Parti Bangsa Malaysia (English: ''Malaysian Nation Party'', abbreviated PBM), is a registered centre-right political party in Malaysia. The party was founded as the Sarawak Workers Party before being handed over in November 2021. The party is currently represented by one

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(MP) after the 15th general election (GE15).

History

At the beginning, Sarawak Workers Party ( ms, Parti Pekerja Sarawak, abbreviated SWP) was a political party based in

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formed in 2012 as a splinter party of

Sarawak Peoples' Party The ''Parti Rakyat Sarawak'' or PRS (English: Sarawak Peoples' Party) is a multiracialism & nationalism political party in Sarawak, and Malaysia at all. The party was founded in the wake of the de-registration of the Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawa ...

(PRS) by some former PRS members headed by dissident leader Sng Chee Hua, who took over the Sabah People's Front (SPF) and rebranded into the new SWP which was

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(BN)-friendly. The senior Sng retired and handed-over the SWP president position to his son,

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in 2013. Larry Sng later resigned from SWP in April 2016 after failure to be accepted into state BN coalition. During his absence, the party under Engga Unchat's leadership formed Gabungan Anak Sarawak (GASAK) with Sarawak People's Aspiration Party (ASPIRASI) and New Sarawak Native People's Party (PBDSB). Larry Sng, after five-years active around as an

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and

People's Justice Party The People's Justice Party ( ms, Parti Keadilan Rakyat , often known simply as KEADILAN or PKR) is a reformist political party in Malaysia, formed in 2003 by a merger of the National Justice Party and the older Malaysian People's Party. The ...

(PKR), rejoined the SWP party in November 2021 as deputy president and revealed the change of the party name to Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) which

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has earlier approved on 14 October 2021. Mohd. Sukri Yusri meanwhile will be temporary president of the new party. All members of previous SWP central leadership resigned and the party is to release its leadership lineup in the process due. On 8 January 2022, Larry Sng, as the newly appointed president of PBM, did not deny the possibility of joining the BN coalition in anticipation for the 15th general election. PBM had declared its support for

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(GPS) during the 2021 Sarawak state election. As the GASAK's policy not cooperating with Peninsular-based or Malaysia-wide parties, the Sarawak opposition coalition which initially consists of ASPIRASI, PBDSB and SWP is not expected to continue any alliance with the new PBM. Meanwhile Nor Hizwan Ahmad, the ''Penggerak Komuniti Negara'' NGO president and also among the PKR members who turned to

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(BERSATU) in the 2020 Sheraton Move, had claimed that its 53,109 NGO members would join the new party.

Leadership crisis and the 15th general election (2022-)

On 26 May 2022,

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resigned from BERSATU and applied to join PBM. Zuraida's membership was approved on 9 June and she was also appointed as the party's president-designate. The decision of the appointment was approved by the party's political bureau and the supreme council. Inaugural PBM president Larry Sng issued a statement on 2 October that he is still the party president and he has not resigned from the position due to the upcoming 15th general election (GE15). On 8 October, PBM announced the appointment of Zuraida as the new party president after a supreme council meeting held on 7 October. Sng was quoted as saying he accepts the supreme council's decision and will not challenge the matter. However, on 26 October, Sng released a statement saying he is still the legitimate party president according to the Registrar of Societies (RoS) records (later confirmed by the RoS director-general on 30 October) and suspended secretary-general Nor Hizwan Ahmad and information chief Zakaria Abdul Hamid (who are reportedly Zuraida's allies) for holding the supreme council meeting to appoint Zuraida as party president without his knowledge and consent. Nor Hizwan dismissed the suspension, claiming that only Zuraida, as the current party president, can suspend him and Zakaria from the party. On 29 October, Sng announced the suspension of Zuraida and 12 supreme council members, which was also dismissed by deputy president and supreme council member Haniza Talha. On 2 November, PBM released a statement that Sng is recognised as the rightful party president and will sign the party's candidate appointment letters to contest in GE15 with Zuraida reverting to her previous position of president-designate. PBM contested for five parlimentary seats (

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, Ampang and

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) and two state assembly seats (

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and

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) in GE15. PBM lost all but one seat, winning only the Julau parliamentary seat through Sng. Most notably, Zuraida lost the Ampang parliamentary seat to PKR's

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and managed to garner only 4,589 votes. Zuraida had previously won the Ampang parliamentary seat in the last three general elections under PKR. PBM joined the

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under the leadership of

Anwar Ibrahim Anwar bin Ibrahim ( ms, انور بن ابراهيم, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset, IPA: ; born 10 August 1947) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the 10th Prime Minister of Malaysia since November 2022. He served as the 12 ...

but was not given a

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position. On 24 December, Sng was reported to have sent show-cause letters to the 13 suspended party members after they have failed to attend a supreme council meeting. After failing to respond to the 26 December deadline, the party's disciplinary committee have decided to sack Zuraida and 10 of the 13 suspended members from the party.

List of PBM presidents

PBM state chairman

* PBM Perlis: Mohd. Firdaus Baharom * PBM Kedah: Yahya Musa * PBM Kelantan: Vacant * PBM Terengganu: Mohamiza Mohamad Sarap * PBM Penang: Vacant * PBM Perak: Vacant * PBM Pahang: Vacant * PBM Selangor: Vacant * PBM Federal Territory: Vacant * PBM Negeri Sembilan: Rosman Jonet * PBM Malacca: Abdul Wahab Ibrahim * PBM Johor: Steven Choong Shiau Yoon * PBM Sabah: Mohamaddin Ketapi * PBM Sarawak: Larry Sng Wei Shien

PBM leadership structure

* President: **

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* Deputy President: ** Wong Judat ** Edmund Santhara * Senior Vice President: ** Steven Choong Shiau Yoon * Vice President: ** Hj. Rosdin Mohd Yusop **

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* Secretary General: * Deputy Secretary General: ** Jenny Chiew * Organisational Secretary: * Elections Director: * Information Chief: * Deputy Information Chief: * Treasurer Chief: ** Lee Chin Cheh * Deputy Treasurer Chief: ** William Chan Tuck Leong * Youth Chief: * Deputy Youth Chief: **Isham Sharudin * Vice Youth Chief: ** Kamnis Burhan ** Vissva Alan ** Andrew Teow Chin Siang *Women Chief * Deputy Women Chief: * Women Youth Chief: * Central Committee Members: ** Lavenia Mawas anak Munan ** Engga anak Uncat ** Shuhada Abdul Rahim ** Ahmad Khairul Mohamed Noor

Elected representatives

Dewan Negara (Senate)

Senators

* His Majesty's appointee:

Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives)

Members of Parliament of the 15th Malaysian Parliament

PBM has 1 member in the

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Dewan Undangan Negeri (State Legislative Assembly)

Malaysian State Assembly Representatives

Selangor State Legislative Assembly The Selangor State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Negeri Selangor) is the unicameral state legislature of the Malaysian state of Selangor. The State Assembly is composed of 56 members representing single-member constituencies throughout the sta ...

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Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly The Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Undangan Negeri Sembilan) is the state legislature of the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan. It consists of 36 members who represent single-member constituencies throughout the state. ...

Kedah State Legislative Assembly The Kedah State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Undangan Negeri Kedah) is the state legislature of the Malaysian state of Kedah. It is a unicameral institution, consisting of a total of 36 lawmakers representing single-member constituencies thro ...

Johor State Legislative Assembly The Johor State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Negeri Johor) is the unicameral legislature of the Malaysian state of Johor. It is composed of 56 members who are elected from single-member constituencies throughout the state. Elections are he ...

Perak State Legislative Assembly The Perak State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Negeri Perak) is the unicameral state legislature of the Malaysian state of Perak. It is composed of 59 members representing single-member constituencies throughout the state. Elections are held no ...

Perlis State Legislative Assembly The Perlis State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Undangan Negeri Perlis) is the state legislature of the Malaysian state of Perlis. It is a unicameral institution, consisting of a total of 15 lawmakers representing single-member constituenci ...

Pahang State Legislative Assembly The Pahang State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Undangan Negeri Pahang) is the unicameral state legislature of the Malaysian state of Pahang. It is composed of 42 members representing single-member constituencies throughout the state. The Asse ...

Sabah State Legislative Assembly The Sabah State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah, Kadazandusun: ''Langga' Tinukuan Pogun Sabah'') is a part of the legislature of Sabah, Malaysia, the other being the governor of Sabah. The assembly meets at the Sabah Sta ...

Sarawak State Legislative Assembly The Sarawak State Legislative Assembly is the legislative chamber of the unicameral legislature of the Malaysian state of Sarawak; the Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Sarawak forms the other part of the legislature. The Assembly is modelled after the ...

Malacca State Legislative Assembly The Malacca State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Undangan Negeri Melaka) is the unicameral legislature of the Malaysian state of Malacca. It is composed of 28 members who are elected from single-member constituencies throughout the state. Ele ...

Kelantan State Legislative Assembly The Kelantan State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Undangan Negeri Kelantan) is the unicameral state legislature of the Malaysian state of Kelantan. It consists of 45 members representing single-member constituencies throughout the state. Elec ...

Terengganu State Legislative Assembly The Terengganu State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Undangan Negeri Terengganu) is the unicameral state legislature of the Malaysian state of Terengganu. It consists of 32 members representing single-member constituencies throughout the state. ...

General election results

State election results

References

Notes

External links

Official website of SWP

Official Facebook page
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