No change in DAP CEC election

All 20 DAP central executive committee members have been re-elected today.

According to Roketkini.com, here are the final results of the DAP CEC election results for 2013-2016:

1.Liew Chin Tong -1,438

2.Lim Kit Siang- 1,436

3.Karpal Singh - 1,421

4.Gobind Singh Deo -1,409

5.Lim Guan Eng -1,304

6.Chong Chieng Jen 1,294

7.Loke Siew Fook (Anthony) - 1,263

8.Chow Kon Yeow 1,203

9.Fong Kui Lun 1,193

10.Teng Chang Khim - 1,164

11. Pua Kiam Wee (Tony) - 1,158

12.Zairil Khir Johari - 1,132

13.Kok Suh Sim (Teresa) - 1,127

14.Chong Eng - 1,111

15.M.Kulasegaran - 1,088

16.Tan Kok Wai - 1,088

17.Teo Nie Ching - 1,081

18.Boo Cheng Hau - 961

19.Nga Kor Ming - 956

20.Ngeh Koo Ham - 809

Earlier it was reported in Bernama that DAP chairman Karpal Singh emphasized, he will not withdraw from politics as long as the opposition coalition fails to form the central government.

The veteran DAP leader did not dismiss the possibility that he will continue to be a candidate in the next general election.

"I will not back down or retire anytime soon. It is my wish to hand over leadership to the younger generation. We will get old and old people (leaders) will retire one day.

"I will retire at an appropriate time. Appropriate means after we achieve what we've dreamed of, which is to form the central government. Then we will give it over to the young ones," he told a news conference at the DAP Special Congress, here today.

During his opening speech, Karpal Singh, 73, said he and the older leadership including DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang, 72, needed to make way for the younger generation to carry the party.

Karpal Singh, a lawyer, began his political career in 1970 when he joined the party. He won a Kedah state assembly seat in 1974 and became Jelutong MP (Penang) in 1978.

He failed to defend the Jelutong seat which he held for more than 20 years in the 1999 general election.

In 2004, Karpal Singh won the Bukit Gelugor parliamentary seat Penang and has defended it since.

Meanwhile forty-nine candidates were vying for the 20 seats in DAP's Central Executive Council (CEC) in its re-election for the posts at a Special Congress of the party here today.

The re-election follows an order from the Registrar of Societies after finding irregularities in the original polls held on Dec 15 last year.

DAP's elections strategy director Dr Ong Kian Ming had announced that the number of candidates this time around dropped by 19 as compared to 68 candidates during the DAP National Congress last December, when the polls were first held.

He said 17 withdrew while two had quit the party. He added that 2,576 delegates from 985 branches had cast their votes.