United Borneo Alliance (abbreviated UBA), was formed by

Jeffrey Kitingan Jeffrey Gapari Kitingan (born 22 October 1948) is Malaysian politician. He served as the Deputy Chief Minister II of Sabah from 2020 to 2023 and State Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries since 2020 (also served in the same position for a b ...

in 2012 after he launched the Sabah chapter of Sarawak-based

State Reform Party Sarawak People's Aspiration Party or ( ms, "Parti Aspirasi Rakyat Sarawak", abbreviated ASPIRASI), is a political party based in Sarawak, Malaysia, renamed and rebranded from previously State Reform Party abbreviated STAR. Background and histo ...

(STAR). Jeffrey also had earlier set-up the preceding United Borneo Front (UBF), the formation of an alliance comprising the

(STAR), United Sabah National Organisation (USNO),

Sabah Progressive Party The Sabah Progressive Party ( ms, Parti Maju Sabah, abbreviated SAPP) is a multiracial political party based in Sabah, Malaysia. It was registered on 21 January 1994 by dissidents led by former Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Yong Teck Lee from ...

(SAPP) and

Sarawak National Party The Sarawak National Party known by its acronym as "SNAP", is now a defunct political party in Malaysia. It was a member party of the Alliance Party from 1963 to 1966 and a member of Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition from 1976 until its expulsi ...

(SNAP) (In 2022, the three parties have officially joined together in the GRS Coalition, while the Sarawak National Party (SNAP) was dissolved on 17 January 2013). The Borneo-based parties from Sabah and Sarawak which would be promoting of the "

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" just like the Hong Kong and Macau status in

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which similarly was an initiative with the platform to educate the people to make a change in themselves first and ultimately to bring Sabahan and Sarawakian to better quality of life and a more progressive country. In 2015, Jeffrey had merged the UBA into the new

United Sabah Alliance The United Sabah Alliance ( ms, Gabungan Sabah Bersatu ; abbreviated: USA) was a political coalition bringing together Sabah-based parties in Malaysia. It was jointly founded by the Sabah Progressive Party and Homeland Solidarity Party after SA ...

(USA) he had formed and finally merged the UBA into

Gabungan Rakyat Sabah Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (abbrev:GRS; en, Sabah People's Alliance), also officially known as the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah Party or for shorts GRS Party is an official registered political coalition and the current ruling coalition in Sabah. Hajiji ...

in September 2020. The year 2020 for

(SAPP) and

Homeland Solidarity Party Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR; ms, Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku ) is a Sabah-based political party. The party was founded on 1 July 2016 by Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Jeffrey G. Kitingan. He is Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan's younger brothe ...

(STAR) to merged into

and March 2022 for United Sabah National Organisation (USNO) to merged into

. just before he re-registered the State Reform Party's Sabah chapter he had led to establish it as a new Sabah-based party, the Parti Solidariti Tanah Airku (STAR) but retained the backronym '' 'STAR' '', leaving the original STAR back to a Sarawak party again in 2016.

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