KUALA SELANGOR: The Registry of Societies’ (RoS) decision to order a re-election of DAP’s Central Executive Committee (CEC) has been alleged to be politically-influenced.
PKR deputy president Datuk Seri Azmin Ali, in making the claim, said it was also disappointing that the RoS took a very long time before making "the simplest decision".
He said the order, however, will not affect Pakatan Harapan's (Pakatan) preparation for the next general election (GE14).
"I was informed that DAP’s CEC will hold their emergency meeting over the issue today. Anyway, I feel disappointed with the RoS for taking too long to make the simplest decision.
"I believe that this proves that there are political hands that had influenced the decision. It came shortly after the Deputy Prime Minister (Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi) announced that he would meet with the RoS over the matter,” Azmin said this morning.
He spoke to reporters during a Hari Raya open house organised by the Selangor Agricultural Development Corporation at the Selangor Fruits Valley in Bestari Jaya here.
Azmin said that although the order was unfortunate for Pakatan, they had already anticipated such pressure against them, especially with the general election drawing near.
"This certainly would not affect our preparations. It has been our position from the very beginning that we need major reform of the entire system in this country, including the democratic institutions, and also all these agencies, so that they would act more professionally and not let their organisations be influenced by political hands.
"But whatever it is, I am confident that the rakyat will make their judgment based on what is happening in the country today,” he added.
Azmin was commenting on the RoS’s decision, which was announced yesterday, to order the DAP’s CEC to conduct a second re-election, as the results of its September 2013 re-election were deemed invalid.