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IPOH: Perak DAP will continue to be led by Nga Kor Ming as chairman with his team making a clean sweep in the state party polls.
Nga, the Teluk Intan MP who is the party’s deputy secretary-general, and 14 others in his team polled more than 1,100 votes each.
Kampar MP Thomas Su, who is the national party assistant organising secretary, got only 550 votes.
Nga and fellow deputy secretary-general V. Sivakumar, who is Batu Gajah MP, both polled highest with 1,228 votes.
Sivakumar was re-appointed state party deputy chief.
The results were announced by national DAP Youth deputy chief Chiong Yoke Kong, who was the returning officer for the polls held during the 19th Perak DAP convention here yesterday.
THE Perak DAP election is about whether or not the delegates want to ubah (change) the state chairman s leadership style.
On Sunday (March 14), 2,135 delegates from 309 branches will decide the composition of the 15-member state committee. The state committee will then vote who among them will hold posts such as chairman and secretary.
They have to decide whether to retain state chairman Nga Kor Ming, who is known for his you are either with us or against us leadership style, or if they prefer Kampar MP Thomas Su, who is offering himself as an inclusive leader.
There are 30 candidates vying to be one of the 15 committee members. Half of them come from Team Nga, including his cousin, Beruas MP Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham; while the rest are Team Su, with Ipoh Barat MP M. Kulasegaran.
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