LEGASI DATUK SERI MOHD. SHAFIE APDAL (DSSA) DI PARLIMEN SEMPORNA DALAM PRU-14

LEGACY OF DATUK SERI MOHD. SHAFIE APDAL (DSSA) IN SEMPORNA'S PARLIAMENT IN GE-14

Abstract

Semporna merupakan sebuah daerah maritim yang terletak di bahagian pantai timur Sabah. Pada PRU-14, pandangan penganalisis banyak bertumpu ke Semporna kerana reformasi politik Sabah telah bermula di daerah ini rentetan keluarnya DSSA daripada UMNO dan menubuhkan Parti Warisan. Ramai berpandangan bahawa tindakan DSSA ini sebagai menggali lubang kubur sendiri dan bakal menamatkan hayat politiknya yang telah dibina sejak 1995. Namun keputusan PRU-14 menyatakan sebaliknya malahan ia berjaya ditabalkan sebagai Ketua Menteri Sabah. Oleh itu makalah ini cuba meneliti sejarah penglibatan politik DSSA yang menyebabkan ia berjaya menonjolkan legasinya walaupun terpaksa berhadapan dengan legasi mentornya, Tun Sakaran. Bagi memahami isu ini, keputusan pilihanraya bermula PRU-9 dianalisis bersama dengan analisis kandungan laporan media-media on-line. Melalui analisis ini, didapati DSSA merupakan watak penting dalam politik Semporna. Ini ditunjukkan dengan jumlah undi popular dalam PRU yang disertainya kekal di atas paras 70 peratus. Walaupun rakyat Semporna sinonim dengan USNO dan UMNO tetapi perpindahan DSSA kepada parti baru Warisan, tidak menjejaskan sokongan rakyat terhadapnya. Ini dibuktikan dengan jumlah majoriti undi yang diperoleh semasa PRU-13 dan PRU-14 adalah hampir sama iaitu sekitar 20, 000 undi. Tambahan pula, parti DSSA mampu mengekalkan undi popular sebanyak 74.2% di DUN Senallang dan 75.4 di DUN Bugaya apabila berhadapan legasi Tun Sakaran.

Abstract
Semporna is a maritime district located on the east coast of Sabah. In the last GE-14, most the political analysts were concentrating on Semporna because of Sabah's political reformation begun in this area when the DSSA resigned from UMNO and formed Warisan Party. Many claimed that the action of DSSA as digging its own grave and will end his political life that has been built since 1995. But the results of the GE-14 said the opposite, in fact, he has been successfully appointed as the Chief Minister of Sabah. So, this paper tries to study the history of DSSA's political involvement that has led to its legacy includes forcing himself to face for the legacy of his mentor, Tun Sakaran. To understand this issue, the election results starting from GE9 were analyzed along with an analysis of the content of online media reports. Through this analysis, it was found that DSSA was an important character in Semporna's politics. This is indicated by the number of popular votes in a contested general election remained above 70 per cent. Although the people of Semporna are synonymous with USNO and UMNO the shifting of DSSA to Warisan Party, does not affect the people's support for him. This is evidenced by the number of majority votes obtained by the GE13 and the GE14 is amounting 20,000 votes. Furthermore, the DSSA party was able to maintain a popular vote of 74.2 per cent in DUN Senallang and 75.4 per cent in the DUN Bugaya when facing the Tun Sakaran legacy.