End of the road for LDP’s Liew?
(FMT) – What we are watching now in Sabah LDP, which incidentally is the oldest BN partner, is an ugly all-or-nothing, party-be-damned, fight that is multi-sided and lined up against the president.
The case for Liew Vui Keong, the leader of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is strong if he wants to go back into legal practice, his old job before he rose in the party and was made a federal deputy minister.
After all he’s more widely known now, has contacts in high places and knows the inner workings of the government like the back of his hand after being a senior member of the Prime Minister’s Department for so long.
It’s probably what he should have been looking at after he was ignominiously defeated by a virtual unknown in the May general elections.
Instead what we are watching now is an ugly all-or-nothing, party-be-damned, fight that is multi-sided and lined up against the president.
Tuesday’s press conference by Liew to announce the sacking of party secretary-general Teo Chee Kang from the post was revealing in itself.
“There was no one else of importance from the party at the PC,” said a member of the media who was there.
Things started to fall apart for the former Deputy Minister after he was defeated in the May general election for the Sandakan parliamentary seat where he was the incumbent.
The warning signs that he would not fade away without a fight were always there starting with his failure to take responsibility for his defeat.
The standard offer to step aside as head of the party after DAP’s Wong Tien Fatt trounced him was not forthcoming.
“That was a major mistake. He should have made the offer. He could have relied on the sympathy factor if he had played his cards right,” said a political observer.
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