DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang said he never had ambitions to become prime minister of the country - and he does not expect to see a non-Malay prime minister in this century.

Lim pointed to the example of the US, where it took some 230 years after the inception of the country for a black man, in form of Barack Obama, to become the US president.

"I hope that Malaysia will not need 230 years before a non-Malay becomes prime minister, but I do not expect a non-Malay to become prime minister in the 21st century," he said in a statement today...