KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 26 — The DAP today pledged to abide by tomorrow’s High Court’s decision on an injunction against its special congress this weekend, which could derail its plan to hold fresh party polls ordered by the Registrar of Societies (RoS).

The party’s secretary-general Lim Guan Eng today also urged members to be calm ahead of the decision tomorrow and to accept the outcome whatever it may be.

Lim also expressed shock over the RoS’s insistence that the party had not complied with its order to hold a national congress, insisting that the special congress scheduled for Sunday satisfied the requirements stated in the DAP constitution.

“Datuk Abdul Rahman should have read the DAP party constitution carefully that there is a specific clause that allows party elections of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) to be held through a Special Congress and not only through a National Congress,” Lim said in a statement today.

“Under a Special Congress, a seven-day notice to delegates is sufficient but a minimum 10-week notice is required for a National Congress. DAP had given three weeks’ notice, which is more than the one week required for the Special Congress.”

Lim said the RoS’s refusal to acknowledge this further bolstered the party’s allegations that the agency had an ulterior motive to allegedly aid rivals Umno to “victimise the DAP for [its] historic victories in the recent general elections.”

Yesterday, DAP chairman Karpal Singh argued that courts had no jurisdiction to intervene in the party’s internal affairs.

The court was hearing the application by A. David Dass, former Ladang Paroi DAP branch chief, for an injunction to stop the DAP’s special congress, on the basis that the party constitution does not allow CEC polls to be held at a special congress, only at a national congress.

On January 4, Lim revealed that an internal audit showed errors in the tabulation of votes from the December 15, 2012 party elections that he said were caused by a technical glitch when the results were transferred to a computer using the Microsoft Excel programme.

The amendments resulted in Lim’s political secretary, Zairil Khir Johari, moving up from 39th position to 20th.

The RoS subsequently ordered the party to conduct fresh polls, after saying it was not satisfied with the party’s explanations.