There is no need for both DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang and its secretary-general Lim Guan Eng to abstain from taking part in the party's central executive committee re-election.

"This is a free country, they can say whatever they want. But as far as we are concerned, both of them are eligible to contest in the CEC election," DAP organising secretary Anthony Loke told a press conference at the party's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.

Loke was responding to calls made by former DAP members asking Guan Eng and Kit Siang not to participate in the party leadership re-election, slated to be held on Nov 12.

A former chairperson of a DAP branch in Penang, G Asoghan, had called on Guan Eng to step down from his post as the party’s 2012 CEC election was declared invalid by the Registrar of Societies (ROS)...