‘State DAP should sever ties with peninsula-based party’

KUCHING: A SUPP central working committee member has called upon the state DAP and its chairman Chong Chieng Jen to sever their ties with the peninsula-based DAP and quit Pakatan Harapan (PH).

This is in response to the absence of state DAP representatives in the PH president council line-up.

Michael Tiang said he sympathised with Abdul Aziz Isa – Chong’s special assistant – for condemning the line-up, adding that Chong should wake up and realise by now that the state DAP was never even considered as part of the PH in the peninsula.

“Chong should dissolve state DAP and form a Sarawak-based party to fight for the rights and interests of Sarawak,” he said in a statement yesterday.

Tiang added that in every general election, DAP leaders from the peninsula would always tell Sarawakians that the ‘change’ should begin from Sarawak.

“However, when it comes to power-sharing, they always forget about Sarawakians. Even Dr Mahathir, their advisor, in a recent press statement said should Pakatan Harapan get to form the next government, DAP leaders would have no chance of becoming prime minister (PM) or deputy prime minister (DPM), despite being the largest component party in Pakatan Harapan.”

Tiang said in GE13, DAP won all the Chinese-majority seats, adding that it is an undeniable fact that the party draws its strength from the Chinese community.

“In the last GE, they even proclaimed that Lim Kit Siang would be the DPM if Pakatan Rakyat won. However for this round when the issue of potential candidates for PM and DPM (posts) was being brought up in Pakatan Harapan, DAP just kept quiet and be subservient.

“It must be pointed out that Chong always accused SUPP for being submissive to Umno,” Tiang said, challenging Chong to say ‘no’ to PH and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia.