‘Let’s hope RoS issue settled’

SHAH ALAM: DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said he hopes the Central Executive Committee (CEC) re-election yesterday will put an end to issues with the Registrar of Societies (RoS).

Lim said DAP was the only political party in Malaysia forced to hold three party elections in the span of five years.

He added the re-election held yesterday was conducted “under protest”.

“It is as if we are in some science fiction movie with the clock turned back ... and we are now going to elect the CEC of 2012 term in 2017 when the party’s term is only for three years,” he said.

“I hope everything is resolved once and for all. As I have said many times, we are a law-abiding party but at the same, we wish that no one test our patience,” he told delegates attending the party’s special congress for the reelection yesterday.

He added the party was confident that it could win the case if it was brought to court, but doing so would jeopardise its chances in the upcoming general election.

“We were left with no choice. This is for the party and for the rocket symbol to be able to be used in the 14th general election,” he added.

A total of 1,356 delegates attended the special congress yesterday from the 2,514 eligible candidates list in 2012.

A total of 62 delegates from the original list had been disqualified for reasons such as being declared bankrupt, resigned from party or passed away.