DAP told to put off state meets
Ex-leader Zulkifli says the party must wait for ROS’ approval of its CEC election.
Athi Shankar, FMT
A former leader of DAP has warned the party against conducting any state convention until the Registrar of Societies (ROS) has approved the recent election of its Central Executive Committee (CEC).
Zulkifli Mohd Noor, who offered himself as a candidate for party chairman just prior to the Sept 29 election, said today that all state conventions stood to be declared null and void if held before ROS’s official recognition of the polls.
He referred to Article 6 of the DAP constitution, which states that the dates of state conventions shall be fixed by the CEC.
Thus, he said, ROS must give recognition to the new CEC line-up before it could decide the dates for state conventions.
The Sept 29 election was held after ROS had rejected the validity of an election held on Dec 15 last year. Zulkifli also failed in his bid to be elected to the CEC.
Zulkifli, who last month quit all his posts in the party and Penang government agencies, noted that ROS had yet to recognise the party leadership since the Dec 15 polls.
“If state conventions were held now, they all would contravene the party constitution,” he said.
“The constitution is the heart and soul of a party. If one breaks it, the whole party collapses.”
He also said all appointments decided and endorsed by the CEC since Dec 15 were invalid for the same reason.
FMT has learnt that DAP submitted the Sept 29 election results to ROS early this week and is scheduled to hold all its state conventions by the middle of next month.
