Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng has called on Gerakan to quit its BN-appointed positions following the party's decision to exit the former ruling coalition.

"The last noble thing for Gerakan to do after leaving BN is to have their two senators, their representative in the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) advisory board and their many other political appointees in various federal and state agencies resign from their BN-appointed positions.

"They were BN appointees, and now that they are leaving BN, they should also do the honourable thing by resigning from the positions, which were given to them by BN, (and) completely disassociating themselves from their previous partnership," he said in a statement today.

Lim lauded the party's exit as "better late than never" for taking a stand after their "humiliating" wipeout in last month's polls.

"Though it's a general election too late for Gerakan to finally make the decision, it is still better late than never to cut ties with the corrupt political coalition.

"Gerakan's unsurprising and belated decision is also a wise one and 'politically correct', unlike the other remorseless and recalcitrant BN parties such as MCA and MIC," said Lim.

'Gerakan owes M'sia an apology'

However, the DAP lawmaker also insisted that Gerakan owed the nation an apology for not speaking up on the massive 1MDB scandal while they were in the then-ruling coalition.

"Gerakan, however, has yet to apologise to the rakyat over 1MDB, the world’s biggest financial scandal.

"Their secretary-general sat on the Public Accounts Committee, and yet he defended 1MDB," he said.

"The PAC reports have since been made public, and the reports clearly show that what was happening in 1MDB was not above board.

“Why is it so hard for Gerakan to apologise for being with the corrupted regime and closing their eyes as the nation was being robbed blind?”

Following BN's unprecedented defeat at the May 9 polls, some of its leaders still claim the 1MDB scandal – the subject of money-laundering probes around the world – was nothing but “opposition slander”.

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who reopened the case following his ascent to Putrajaya, said the government has a strong case against the perpetrators of what the US has called the worst case of kleptocracy ever seen.