Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah

The party was founded on 28 August 2013 by the late Ationg Tituh as a successor to the dissolved United People's Justice Front Party (AKAR)^[4] but remained dormant until 2016 due to a lack of funds and manpower.^[5]

GAGASAN was a member to a failed merger involving Love Sabah Party, Sabah Native Cooperation Party, and a yet-to-be-registered Parti Hak Sabah with Anifah Aman as president.^[6][7] Prior to the party's takeover by Hajiji in 2023, it was dominated by the Kadazan-Dusun-Murut-Rungus (KDMR), an amalgamation of related indigenous ethnic groups.^[8][5]

The party's current leadership under Hajiji Noor was involved in a series of political realignments and party hopping before ending up taking over GAGASAN. Hajiji who once headed UMNO Sabah decided to quit the party in the aftermath of 2018 Malaysian general election.^[9] In 2019 the faction became the core of newly-founded expansion of Malaysian United Indigenous Party in Sabah, then component of ruling Pakatan Harapan.^[10] The faction supported Muhyiddin's Perikatan Nasional government in 2020, with Hajiji Noor leading then loose Gabungan Rakyat Sabah to win 2020 Sabah state election.^[11] Hajiji then led this faction to quit both Perikatan Nasional and BERSATU in 10 December 2022 when Gabungan Rakyat Sabah decided to support Anwar Ibrahim cabinet.^[12]

Sabah Chief Minister Hajiji Noor announced his takeover of the party on 29 January 2023, with the party having been accepted into the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah coalition, which Hajiji also led, on 9 December 2022.^[13] The four members of parliament who left the Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah in December 2022 were not allowed to join GAGASAN as a result of the federal anti-party hopping law.^[14]

The party gained 26 members of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly over the course of the 2023 Sabah political crisis.

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