KOTA KINABALU: Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal says DAP should not set conditions when seeking talks with Parti Warisan over possible cooperation during GE15.

       The Warisan president was commenting on DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke's condition that DAP was willing to work with other Sabah parties as long as they retained the right to contest the three parliamentary seats it holds, namely Tenom, Sandakan and Kota Kinabalu.

       "This is one-way traffic... we cannot be too arrogant," he told reporters at the Warisan headquarters in Kolombong near here on Tuesday (June 7).

       The former Sabah chief minister said DAP should speak accordingly to parties if it was honest and wanted to forge ties to achieve a favourable outcome in GE15.

       He said during GE14 for example, Warisan and DAP had a proper negotiation on seats to contest as well as the direction and approach they should take.

       "But now, it's not like that. He is saying 'these are our seats'. If we contest in the peninsula, they are saying we are interfering but it's not the same if they want our seats.

       "Please show some respect. They have the right (not to talk to us), that's up to them, we are okay with it," Shafie added.

       In a DAP event here on June 4, Loke said he was willing to have a meeting with Shafie "based on mutual respect".

       Loke said DAP was open to working with other parties "for the betterment of Sabah and Malaysia" but not to "beg to work with other people".