KUALA LUMPUR: Bagan Member of Parliament Lim Guan Eng has vacated his post as the secretary-general of the Democratic Action Party while his father and the party’s veteran leader Lim Kit Siang has retired from politics.In his speech during the congress, the younger Mr Lim said that DAP was in a “transitional generation where a new secretary-general will be elected”.
Mr Lim Guan Eng has been at the helm of the party for 17 years. He cannot be re-elected to the post because he has served the maximum three terms. Seremban MP and the party’s national organising secretary Anthony Loke is tipped to replace Mr Lim Guan Eng as the secretary-general, the report said. In his speech, Mr Lim Guan Eng acknowledged that the party had weaknesses, and called for unity between the PH coalition partners ahead of national polls.
However, the PH government led by former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad was ousted in February 2020 in a political manoeuvre dubbed the “Sheraton Move”.“Whilst DAP is tempted to use the Rocket logo, DAP will stick to the coalition logo of PH to help us to win together,” said Mr Lim Guan Eng. He added that he was proud to see DAP develop from a small opposition party when it first contested in the general election in 1969, into a major political party in the PH coalition that won the 14th General Election.
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