KUALA LUMPUR: It is not compulsory for delegates to be involved in the DAP central executive committee (CEC) re-election process, as it is up to the electors to be present during polls.
Despite controversies concerning the reduced number of delegates eligible to vote for the CEC, DAP organising secretary Anthony Loke Siew Fook said the party had only just issued notices to the delegates to remind them of the re-election, set to be held next month.
A total of 2,576 delegates have been notified, save for the 62 original delegates who had either quit the party, had gone bankrupt, or are deceased.
“We do not know (whether they will turn up or otherwise). We had only informed them (about the re-election).
“We did not ask them to come. It is up to them. It is the right of the delegates to turn up,” Loke told a press conference today.
Loke said the same delegates list would used as electors.
In July, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng had lambasted the Registrar of Societies (RoS) for instructing the party to use delegates from the original roster.
Lim said it was impossible to do so since some members had left and party chairman Karpal Singh, who was among the delegates, had died.
In 2013, the RoS had ordered the re-election after it found irregularities and possible manipulation of votes by the party in its initial election in December 2012.
After the re-election at the time, some party members had claimed that they were denied the right to attend the party congress as delegates.