KUALA LUMPUR: A DAP leader has hit back at Perikatan Nasional’s Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali over his claim that the party’s loss in the Sabah state election showed it had been rejected by the Chinese and business communities.
DAP Socialist Youth chief Woo Kah Leong said Azmin, the PN secretary-general, should instead examine why the coalition fared poorly in the polls, losing 41 seats, with 36 of its candidates forfeiting their deposits.
He said, unlike PN, DAP had accepted responsibility for its defeat and held meetings to review the results and plan ways to regain public support.
“Since the Sabah polls, Bersatu has not conducted any post-mortem or follow-up action. Instead, its leaders continue to attack DAP and create division,” he said.
Woo added that DAP’s response to the election outcome differed from that of Bersatu, a party that had not lived up to its name, which means “unity”.
“Twenty Bersatu divisions have reportedly called for party president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to resign,” he said, adding that hundreds of division leaders are also said to have joined the call.
“So, Azmin, instead of finding the faults of others, perhaps you should ask why 36 Bersatu candidates lost their deposits,” he added.
In the recent Sabah polls, DAP lost in all eight seats it contested, including six it had sought to defend.
PN, meanwhile, won one, after its sole Pas candidate, Datuk Dr Aliakbar Gulasan, scored an unexpected win in the Karambunai seat.
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