Snap polls: DAP machinery fired up
By Teoh El Sen, Free Malaysia Today
PETALING JAYA: DAP is gearing up its election machinery in anticipation of a snap polls being called, said party publicity chief Tony Pua.
Pua, who is also Petaling Jaya Utara MP, said the DAP election committee met yesterday to discuss the upcoming tasks and activities for the general election.
“We have to step up our preparations now, though in the strict sense we have not yet formally started,” Pua told reporters after a fund raising dinner here last night.
“We aim to be ready within the next two months. We hope to achieve peak condition by then and will continue to maintain that,” he said.
Among the activities discussed by the election committee, he said, included the printing of leaflets and brochures and the creation of an election manifesto.
Asked when the election would be called, Pua said it could be held anytime and even members of the election committee had differing views on this.
“There are those who are saying March, April, while others are speculating late 2011 in September perhaps. Whatever it is, we hope to be prepared much earlier,” he said.
On Pakatan Rakyat retaining power in Selangor, Pua said the coalition still had an edge but it cannot rest on its laurels.
“We have to continue to send the message to the people that we are the better choice. And we must be in a continual state of improvement mode.
“One key difference is that we don’t find our MB enriching himself through improper means,” he said, in an obvious swipe at former MB Dr Mohd Khir Toyo who was facing a corruption charge.
‘BN must suffer pain of defeat’
Earlier, Kampung Tunku DAP state assemblyman Lau Weng San said in his speech that the rakyat must reject Barisan Nasional.
