COMMENT Not since trade unionists Ahmad Nor and Zainal Rampak joined the DAP in the 1980s has the party succeeded in attracting prominent union leaders to its fold than when Hata Wahari enlisted a fortnight ago.

The expelled Utusan Malaysia journalist and former president of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) joining the burgeoning ranks of ethnic Malays in the party is proof of the DAP’s growing status as a political party of multiracial composition...