COMMENT Practically everyone who remembers Lim Kit Siang’s announcement at a press conference days before the 12th general election that the poll was going to be the DAP adviser’s last in a lengthy career would forgive him his current amnesia about it.

Poised as his party is to play an unprecedented role in a possible federal government with coalition partners PKR and PAS after GE13 plays out, it would be churlish to deny Malaysia’s most durable oppositionist his tryst with the poacher-become-gamekeeper destiny.

Few things in a tenaciously striving career are more gratifying than requited labour...