DAP organising secretary Anthony Loke has urged Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and the Registrar of Societies (RoS) to approve Pakatan Rakyat’s registration before its convention on March 8.

He said Pakatan has already held four conventions and applied at least three times for the registration of the coalition comprising DAP, PAS and PKR.

The coming 5th convention of Pakatan is to be held in Shah Alam

“We urge the ROS and the home minister to approve the registration as soon as possible. We hope the approval can be made before the convention, so that we can launch the coalition at the convention,” Loke said at a press conference with other component party officials today.

Also present were PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail and PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali.

Mustafa said the call to expeditethe registration of Pakatan has nothing to do with the Kajang by-election that will be held on March 23.

Saifuddin said the last time an application was submitted was in January last year and the coalition has been following up on this “almost every day” to ensure it is approved.

The RoS has explained that the application has yet to be processed because Pakatan failed to provide information on changes in the leadership.