Talk rife Serian MP may quit SUPP - The Star

By Jack Wong

KUCHING: Talk is rife that long-serving Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Serian MP Datuk Richard Riot Jaem will quit the party after he was not appointed to the Federal administration.

His supporters, mostly Bidayuhs, were said to be upset, blaming the party for not recommending Jaem for a post.

He is SUPP Serian branch chairman and the only non-Chinese the party fielded in the polls.

SUPP president Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam denied that Jaem had resigned from the party as reported by an online portal.

Dr Chan said the party had recommended to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to appoint Jaem as a parliamentary secretary. Abdullah has done away with parliamentary secretaries in the new Cabinet line-up.

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