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COMMENT | Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi may have underestimated the DAP when he tried to rub salt into the wound during the party’s current re-election crisis.

A central executive committee (CEC) re-election had already been carried out by DAP in 2013 shortly after the first flawed election, but four years later, the Registrar of Societies (ROS) has now instructed it to carry out another re-election.

“There is really no basis for such a re-election,” a source said. “It is to keep us busy and occupied, in view of the coming general election.”

Another source said that the request by the ROS is simply “nonsensical as we have already complied with their directives to the letter”. This sounds as if a letter in a glass bottle had gone around the world and only reached the shores of Malaysia four years later. But Malaysians watching the political development are simply not amused by it.

Another source said that the attack was expected as the DAP has been a prominent critic of 1MDB. “Because of this crisis, we are now more united as a party,” he said, adding, “The more you try to break our spirit, our members will rise to the occasion, especially when the party is being attacked.”

The difference between the DAP and Umno, which Zahid is deputy president of, he continued, is that the former thrives on volunteerism. “No one is paid to work, nor are they seeking to gain contracts after we win.

“People enter politics because they are willing to sacrifice their time and money for a better Malaysia. In short, they are there for the cause,” he said...

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