KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — Sungai Pelek assemblyman Ronnie Liu is quitting DAP effective tomorrow.
The DAP central executive council member said his tenure would end in 2025 and that there were many things that had happened since he joined the party as a secondary school student in 1982, but did not go into details for his decision to pull out.
“However, 41 years have passed and with DAP many things have happened and some were beyond my expectations.
“With that, I request to end my membership with DAP effective 24 June 2023,” he wrote in an open letter in Malay addressed to the party secretary-general Anthony Loke, on his Facebook page last night.
He thanked the party for the opportunities accorded to him over the years.
“May DAP continue to progress and always hold to the principle of democratic socialism and the concept of ‘Malaysia for Malaysians’,” he ended.
In several posts since then, he has reiterated his support for the “unity government” led by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
“I will continue to support Prime Minister Anwar and the unity government,” he wrote in Chinese.
Liu, who is also a Selangor state executive councillor, had expressed his intent to quit DAP since last year but said he was putting it on hold for the 15th general election.
He was reportedly dissatisfied over the party’s amendment to its constitution that allows elected representatives who do not toe the party line on fundamental issues to automatically lose their membership.
He had said the decision showed that DAP may no longer be democratic, adding that only the Registrar of Societies can save the party from “deteriorating into an undemocratic entity”.
