10-11-2022, 03:53 PM
Let central leadership decide: Penang Pakatan divided on dissolving assembly
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GEORGE TOWN – The decision on whether Penang will choose to dissolve the state assembly to hold a simultaneous election as the federal one may be known by tomorrow after a heated discussion took place during last night’s state DAP emergency meeting.
It is learnt that the state’s DAP leadership under chief minister and state DAP chairman Chow Kon Yeow have referred the matter now to the DAP central executive committee (CEC) and the Pakatan Harapan (PH) presidential council to make the final decision.
The PH council had earlier decided that they will stick to the original plan for states under its administration – namely Penang, Selangor and Negri Sembilan – to hold separate polls to protest the notion that polls are to be conducted during the seasonal floods period.
It is learnt that the central theme of last evening’s meeting was whether a separate election would burden voters and what were the distinctive advantages in holding a segregated election from the parliamentary one.
It is learnt that the state’s DAP leadership under chief minister and state DAP chairman Chow Kon Yeow have referred the matter now to the DAP central executive committee (CEC) and the Pakatan Harapan (PH) presidential council to make the final decision.
The PH council had earlier decided that they will stick to the original plan for states under its administration – namely Penang, Selangor and Negri Sembilan – to hold separate polls to protest the notion that polls are to be conducted during the seasonal floods period.
It is learnt that the central theme of last evening’s meeting was whether a separate election would burden voters and what were the distinctive advantages in holding a segregated election from the parliamentary one.
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