Sarawak People's Energy Party

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Sarawak People's Energy Party
Parti Tenaga Rakyat Sarawak
AbbreviationTERAS
PresidentBanyi Beriak
FounderWilliam Mawan Ikom
FoundedJune 2013
LegalisedAugust 2013
DissolvedJanuary 2018
Split from Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP)
Headquarters Kuching, Sarawak
Membership15,800 (claimed)
Ideology Sarawak regionalism
Political position Centre-right
Colours  Indigo

The Sarawak People's Energy Party (Malay : Parti Tenaga Rakyat Sarawak, abbreviated TERAS) was a Sarawak-based political party in Malaysia. Founded by William Mawan Ikom, the leader of a disgruntled faction within the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), it was among the 20 new parties to have its registration approved by the Registrar of Societies (RoS) in 2013. [1] [2]

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History

At its inception, TERAS was a splinter party of the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP). It was founded by disgruntled leaders led by William Mawan Ikom following a leadership crisis within the SPDP. The party was later joined by elected representatives from the Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP). [3] The leadership of the party was supportive of the then ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. However, their application to become a BN component party was rejected by the coalition. [3]

TERAS succeeded in attracting a total of 11 elected representatives to join the party in May 2014. However, Wong Soon Koh and four state assemblymen who defected to the party decided to quit TERAS to join the United People's Party (UPP), an offshoot of SUPP. An arrangement was made between TERAS and Barisan Nasional for the division of seats to be contested in the 2016 Sarawak state election. [4] [5] On 11 May 2016, the party's leadership decided to officially dissolve itself to allow their members, who were elected as direct BN candidates, to join any Sarawak-based component within the coalition. [6] However, the plans were put on hold and then cancelled following the developments of the 2018 general election. [7]

Banyi Beriak, who was the founding Secretary General of TERAS when it was formed in 2013 before quitting in 2018 to join the UPP and later the PSB, announced on 28 October 2021 that he had left PSB to return to TERAS to take over the presidency of the party. [8] He then announced in December 2021 that the party would field candidates in the 2021 state election only to be canceled due to a lack of preparations by the party. [9]

Government offices

State governments

Note: bold as Chief Minister, italic as junior partner

Election results

State election results

State electionState Legislative Assembly
Sarawak Total won / Total contested
2/3 majority
2 / 3
2016

(BN Direct)

3 / 82
3 / 3

References

  1. ↑ Rintod, Luke (4 September 2013). "New Sabah party targets youth". Free Malaysia Today . Malaysia. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Bernama (2 September 2013). "ROS approves 20 new political parties". fz.com. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Harapan UPP dan Teras untuk sertai gabungan BN Sarawak berkecai". Berita Harian (in Malay). 6 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Bernama (18 January 2016). "Adenan: Masalah BN S'wak selesai sebelum penamaan calon". Malaysiakini (in Malay). Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Lian Cheng (22 January 2018). "The homeless politicians". Dayak Daily. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Goh Pei Pei (11 May 2016). "Teras is no more". The New Straits Times . Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "Parti Tenaga Rakyat Sarawak (English: Sarawak People's Energy Party)". SINGAPORE ELECTIONS. Archived from the original on October 28, 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  8. ↑ Churchill Edward (29 October 2021). "Banyi quits PSB to helm Teras". Borneo Post . Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  9. ↑ Churchill Edward (12 December 2021). "Teras cites lack of preparation as reason for staying out of S'wak polls". Borneo Post . Retrieved 12 December 2021.

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