SUPP mulls admitting See as member with eye on Batu Lintang

The Sarawak United Peoples Party (SUPP) is weighing the possibility of admitting See Chee How as a member, with the intention of fielding him in the Batu Lintang seat, a constituency he has represented since 2011. SUPP president Dr Sim Kui Hian confirmed that See's application to join the party's Pending branch will be deliberated upon by the central working committee, which convenes four times a year.

Dr Sim, who is the Pending SUPP chairman himself, clarified that See does not need to be a member of the Batu Lintang branch to contest the constituency. See made his application to join SUPP on the same day the Sarawak assembly was dissolved, setting the stage for the upcoming state election to take place by December at the latest.

Despite rumors suggesting that the Batu Lintang SUPP branch might not welcome See, given his past electoral clashes with the branch's chairman, Sih Hua Tong in 2011, 2016, and 2021, See has a strong record as an assemblyman. First elected in 2011 on a PKR ticket, he defeated Sih by a significant 8,381-vote majority. He maintained the seat with a narrower 4,385-vote majority in 2016, following his expulsion from PKR in 2020.

See then joined the now-defunct Parti Sarawak Bersatu, winning a third term against Sih again with a narrow 93-vote margin. He left the Parti Sarawak Bersatu to become an independent assemblyman in 2022, and subsequently declared his support for the GPS state government.