Newly elected Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced the Cabinet line-up at a news conference in Menara Yayasan Selangor yesterday, May 12, 2018. — Picture by Azinuddin Ghazali

KUALA LUMPUR, May 13 ― The Bidayuh community is hopeful that two of its MPs in Pakatan Harapan (PH) would be appointed to the new federal government Cabinet.

Temenggong for the Bidayuhs in Kuching, Austin Dimin, reportedly said that both the MPs are young and highly educated, and hence fit the profile sought by Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

“In the previous cabinet, we had one full minister and two deputy ministers from the Bidayuh community. It is our hope that the new MPs we have now will be in the cabinet,” he was quoted as saying in the Borneo Post.

The two MPs are Willie Mongin from Puncak Borneo and Mordi Bimol from Mas Gading, who were elected after the pact made massive gains in winning the Bidayuh votes during the polls last week.

Willie and Mordi both succeeded in their second attempts at their respective seats, defeating Barisan Nasional (BN) candidates by 4,000 and 3,000-vote majorities respectively.

Aided by their win, PH more than doubled the parliamentary seats it held in Sarawak, thus helping it end BN’s 60-year reign as the federal government.