DAP CEC results shows racism: Puad Zarkashi

(Bernama) – “Even though the Malay candidates vying for the CEC posts were not ordinary people, such as Senator Ariffin S. M. Omar, who is an academician and a professor, they still lost because the party practises racism and chauvinism.

The DAP’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) election results affirms its former vice-chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim’s assertions that Malays had no place in the party, said Umno supreme council member Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi.

“Even though the Malay candidates vying for the CEC posts were not ordinary people, such as Senator Ariffin S. M. Omar, who is an academician and a professor, they still lost because the party practises racism and chauvinism.

“I know that Ariffin was not elected because he was a Malay, and DAP members did not even look at his qualifications,” he told Bernama here yesterday.

In this regard, Mohd Puad, who is also education deputy minister, urged the Malay community, including PAS members, to open their mind and not ignore reality.

“How can you work together, when Malay leaders are not even appreciated in the party; what more, if DAP is given the reins to the country?,” he asked.

Mohd Puad said DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng’s action to use the congress as a platform to openly insist for the party to contest 13 additional seats in the 13th General Election indicated there was no coordination among the opposition parties where seat allocation was concerned.

He said, DAP appeared to belittle PKR and PAS while sending out the message that the two parties were not capable of winning many seats in the general election.