DAP CEC injunction: Decision on Friday
If the injunction is granted, DAP may have to postpone its central executive committee polls slated to be held on Sunday.
K Pragalath, FMT
The Kuala Lumpur High Court will make its decision whether to strike out an injunction filed against the DAP election or otherwise come Friday.
High Court judge Rosnaini Saub said this after hearing submissions from counsel representing both parties.
DAP and its secretary-general Lim Guan Eng were represented by counsels Karpal Singh and Gobind Singh Deo.
The applicant, Ladang Paroi DAP branch deputy chairman A David Dass was represented by lawyers M Mahendra and K Harikrishnan.
In his submission, Harikrishnan argued that the procedures to hold a central executive committee (CEC) election was not followed as there was an absence of a 10 weeks notice period before holding party polls, as stipulated for national congress in the party constitution.
However, Gobind responded by saying that DAP is holding a special congress which requires only a minimum seven days notice period.
“And the notice we gave for this was a three months notice,” said Gobind.
On Sept 10, David filed an injunction against Lim and the DAP to stop the re-election, claiming that it was against the party constitution.
DAP is holding fresh elections for its CEC in order to avoid deregistration following a directive by the Registrar of Societies (ROS) on July 30.
The re-election was ordered by ROS after disgruntled members claimed that the election in December last year was not properly conducted.
DAP had announced that an error in keying in data on the polls result, which had resulted in the wrong candidate being elected to the CEC.
