KUCHING, Oct 18 2025: Parti Rakyat Sarawak’s (PRS) outgoing president Datuk Sri Joseph Salang Gandum has suggested for the creation of more, but smaller rural Dayak constituencies to facilitate smoother delivery of projects and dissemination of ideas that can help in the struggle to reduce incidence of poverty .
Joseph Salang: Currently some rural seats are very large and have larger numbers of voters than some sub-urban constituencies
He said PRS, like other component parties of Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS), seeks more equitable ethnic representation in the Sarawak Legislative Assembly (SLA).
“We can not leave the process of constituency mapping to the Election Commission (EC) alone.
“Currently some rural seats are very large and have larger numbers of voters than some sub-urban constituencies,” Salang said his address, his last, at the party’s triennial delegates conference (TDC) today.
He also urged Premier Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Openg to personally intervent to address this nagging issue will be one of his greatest legacies.
He also expressed his concern which he said needs to be addressed is that politics and hence decision making is getting more gravitated in the hands of a few who control the pulse string.
He said elections are becoming too expensive, adding that “We need to have a serious look at political funding mechanism by the government and possibly even undertake electoral reform.”
He said Sarawak can suggest steps to the federal government to initiate actions to find resolution to this problem.
On the 6th TDC, Salang said it is the occasion when party members elect new supreme council which will lead the party for the next three years.
“Tomorrow we shall have new president after the votes are counted. I urge that we all help him carry his duties as I have enjoyed the undivided support of the outgoing supreme council.
“I plead with all the delegates for the main body to exercise your voting right seriously .
“All candidates are known to you and your choice well make what PRS you want, and one that remains a friendly component of GPS”, he said.
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