PPP WANTS SEATS BACK AT NEXT ELECTION.

(From Bernama The Malaysian National News Agency)

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 1 (Bernama) -- The People's Progressive Party (PPP) should be allowed to contest eight parliamentary and 18 state constituencies in the next general election, matching the number of seats it held in the 1960s, its Youth chief T.Murugiah said today.

He said the PPP was confident of winning if given an opportunity to contest these seats by the Barisan Nasional (BN) leadership.

"The PPP Youth wants the party president (Datuk M. Kayveas) and supreme council members to plead to the BN leadership that the PPP be given back the seats it held in the 1960s," he said in his speech at the PPP Youth annual general assembly here.

He said the PPP should be given its share of seats as the Election Commission had proposed to add 25 parliamentary and 59 state seats in the current redelineation exercise.

The PPP Youth also requested that Kayveas be made a minister and that its other leaders be given proper recognition by being appointed to district and town councils.

"We are grateful to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad for making our president a Senator and a deputy minister (Housing and Local Government) but compared to other component party members (leaders) who are ministers, the PPP president too deserves this honour," he said.