{
  "id": 17364697,
  "title": "SUPP mulls admitting See as member with eye on Batu Lintang",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/supp-mulls-admitting-see-as-member-with-eye-on-batu-lintang",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-31T07:26:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/10/31/supp-mulls-admitting-see-as-member-with-eye-on-batu-lintang"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Sarawak United Peoples Party (SUPP) president Dr Sim Kui Hian has revealed that the party is considering admitting See Chee How as a member, with a focus on the Batu Lintang seat. See has represented Batu Lintang since 2011. While it is not mandatory for See to be a member of the SUPP's Batu Lintang branch to contest the constituency, his application will be discussed by the party's central working committee, which convenes four times a year. See applied to join SUPP on Tuesday, the day after the Sarawak assembly was dissolved, which could lead to the next state election being held by December at the latest. However, there have been rumors that the Batu Lintang SUPP branch may not accept See, as he has previously contested the seat against the branch's chairman, Sih Hua Tong, in the 2011, 2016, and 2021 state elections. See was first elected to Batu Lintang in 2011 as a three-term member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), defeating Sih with an 8,381-vote majority. He retained the seat in 2016 with a smaller 4,385-vote majority, but was later sacked by PKR in 2020. See then joined the now-defunct Parti Sarawak Bersatu and won a third term as Batu Lintang assemblyman, again defeating Sih by a narrow 93-vote margin. He left the Parti Sarawak Bersatu to become an independent assemblyman in 2022 and subsequently declared support for the GPS state government.",
  "summary": "SUPP president Dr Sim Kui Hian says the three-term assemblyman does not have to be a member of the Batu Lintang branch to be fielded by the party.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}