KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 — Malaysian United Democratic Alliance’s (Muda) sole assemblyman Amira Aisya Abd Aziz will no longer be welcome to sit with the balancing assemblymen in the Johor assembly, Stulang assemblyman Andrew Chen Kah Eng said today.
The Johor DAP secretary said in a statement that this was due to the youth-led party’s decision to withdraw from the unity government and for its attitude of unfriendliness towards it.
“This action shows that they are ungrateful even though Pakatan Harapan (PH) has helped them before this.
“Since Muda has chosen and decided to leave the unity government and be unfriendly to the unity government, then automatically, the Muda assemblyman in Johor will no longer be in the PH balancing bloc,” he said.
He also expressed his disappointment in Muda for its frequent action of coming out with statements that oppose the unity government in recent times.
It was even more disheartening to have Muda president Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman refer to DAP as a “lapdog”, he added in reference to Syed Saddiq calling the party Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s “lapdog” last week.
He also pointed out that Muda had contested against PH and Barisan Nasional (BN) in the recent elections held in six states.
Yesterday, Syed Saddiq announced that Muda has decided to be a “third force” in Malaysia’s politics by becoming an opposition party.
Taking to social media to make the announcement, he said in a brief video clip that this decision was made after discussions within Muda, showing the contents of a letter dated yesterday, which he said had been sent to the Dewan Rakyat speaker regarding this matter.
Last Thursday, he slammed DAP as allegedly being hypocritical and lacking principles in a bid to stay in power after he was criticised for calling out his own allies in the government over the Attorney General’s Chambers move to discontinue Zahid’s trial.
