KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — The outcome of last night’s highly-anticipated DAP central executive committee (CEC) meeting was “positive for the rakyat”, the party’s national organising secretary Anthony Loke said.
When met late last night after the discussion, the DAP leader declined to give away details, except to say that the decision is “positive for all”.
“I will say that it will disappoint BN and Umno,” Loke told journalists when door-stopped after the nearly four-hour meeting at the party’s headquarters.
Last night’s meeting was expected to decide on DAP’s future in Pakatan Rakyat, after the party claimed of being “backstabbed” by coalition partner PAS over the Islamist party’s push to implement hudud in Kelantan.
Leaders from the two parties have been at each other’s necks over the past few weeks over PAS’s insistence on pushing its controversial amendments to Kelantan’s shariah laws to enable the implementation of hudud.
The situation worsened after PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang tabled two private members’ bills seeking to amend the Federal Constitution to allow Kelantan to adopt hudud law, with DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng calling the former Umno’s “trojan horse”.
DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua acknowledged that there was “intense discussions” and “clashes of ideas” during the meeting, which he said saw full attendance by CEC members.
“It was a tough decision to make, due to the implications it would have on the party and Pakatan,” he said, without elaborating.
Pua said the party’s secretary-general is expected to issue a statement on the meeting’s outcome at 10am today.
