Gerakan has cried foul over DAP’s apparent central executive committee (CEC) election blunder, claiming it was a ploy to elect in a Malay member, following “public” criticism.
Gerakan deputy president Chang Ko Youn said the latest announcement of the new result in the DAP party election, held more than two weeks ago, “is a farce and the biggest joke in Malaysian political history”.
“Is it a means to ensure a Malay be elected into the CEC to deflect public criticism on the non-election of a Malay into the committee?
“Isn’t that a manipulation of the result? The public are suspicious and amazed by this unprecedented decision.
“DAP needs to explain this debacle,” Chang said in a statement today.
Gerakan and other BN leaders and their pressure groups had earlier kicked up a fuss over the failure of DAP’s Malay candidates to get elected into the opposition party’s CEC.They had trumpeted the fact as proof that DAP was not a multiracial party as the latter claims.
DAP’s announcement last night of an error in the election results that saw the Penang Chief Minister’s political secretary Zairil Khir Johari (below) earning a place in the CEC immediately drew the reaction of the party’s arch rival and former administrators of Penang.
Gerakan lost the state to DAP in the landmark 2008 general election.
Ironically, Chang claimed that the revised results, that DAP said they had decided to make public after the error was discovered in an internal audit and verified by external auditors, showed a lack of transparency.
“The changed election results have made a mockery of DAP electoral system, which has thrown their CAT (DAP’s touted principles of competency, accountability and transparency) concept into the gutter.
“There is no competency, accountability and transparency in the party as exposed by this farcical election result,” said Chang.
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