DAP leaders stay mum after Ronnie says he’s quitting

 

DAP central executive committee member Ronnie Liu said he had decided only recently to leave the party and will explain soon.

PETALING JAYA: DAP maverick Ronnie Liu, saying he has “no choice”, is to soon quit the party after being a member for 40 years.

The party’s top leadership, such as secretary-general Loke Siew Fook and national chairman Lim Guan Eng, had no comment when asked about Liu’s impending departure.

Liu told FMT that he would issue a statement to explain why he was leaving.

“I only decided on this very recently. I’m working on my statement now, you will find out very soon,” he said when contacted.

Liu is a member of the party’s central executive committee, and a two-term Selangor state assemblyman for Sungai Pelek. He said he has been with the party since 1982 and had founded the Sungei Way-Subang DAP branch.

He had recently made headlines by criticising an amendment to the DAP constitution which allows a member to be expelled for not toeing the party line.

“God save DAP,” he had written in a Facebook posting on Sept 26 after suggesting that the party was no longer democratic by adopting the amendment.

He said he would have been removed from the party had the amendment been in place, when he was vocal about various issues, such as the leadership of Dr Mahathir Mohamad when Pakatan Harapan was in power, the arrests of 12 people over alleged links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and recognition of the Unified Examination Certificate of independent Chinese-medium schools.

Liu said only the Registrar of Societies could save the party from “deteriorating into an undemocratic entity”. - FMT