Sarawak People's Energy Party

The Sarawak People's Energy Party (Malay: Parti Tenaga Rakyat Sarawak, abbreviated TERAS) was a political party in Malaysia. It is among the 20 new parties to have their registration approved by the Registrar of Society (RoS) and received permission to operate as a political party in 2013.[1][2]

Sarawak People's Energy Party

Parti Tenaga Rakyat Sarawak
AbbreviationTERAS
FounderWilliam Mawan Ikom
Founded2013
Legalised2013
Dissolved2016
Split fromSarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP)
HeadquartersKuching, Sarawak
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At its inception, TERAS was a splinter party of Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), set-up by its disgruntled leaders and was pro-Barisan Nasional (BN).[3] However the hopes of TERAS to join BN were rejected by the coalition.[3] An arrangement was made between TERAS and Barisan Nasional for the division of seats contested in the Sarawak state election, 2016.[4]

On 11 May 2016, TERAS was supposed to be officially dissolved itself in order to allow their members, who won as direct BN candidates, to join any component party of the coalition.[5] But its plans was put on hold and even cancelled while watching developments of the 2018 general election.[6]

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. "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. Goh Pei Pei (11 May 2016). "Teras is no more". The New Straits Times. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  6. "Parti Tenaga Rakyat Sarawak (English: Sarawak People's Energy Party)". SINGAPORE ELECTIONS. Retrieved 28 October 2018.

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