KOTA KINABALU: The people will vote for a government based on its common principles, not on its system, according state Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Raymond Tan.
He was responding to Parti Warisan Sabah's vow to bring the single-party system back into the state administration.
"There are single-party governments and there are coalition-party governments... these are all just different models, and we have already tried the single-party model in the past.
"(When we argue about the difference between these models), we are avoiding the main thing: Can you, as a government, deliver what the people want? Can you go forward as a progressive government that can meet the people's needs?
"I do not think that people will vote based on what kind of model the party follows. They will vote for a strong government that can actually help them" he said during an open house celebration at Regus Suria Sabah.
Last Tuesday, Warisan deputy president Darell Leiking claimed that bringing back a single-party system would unite all of the ethnic groups in Sabah and eliminate unnecessary power struggles among component parties.
It would see the state harkening back to the days of United Sabah National Organisation (Usno), Parti Bersatu Rakyat Jelata Sabah (Berjaya) and Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS).