Chief Minister Idris Haron posed this question when commenting on the resignation from the party of three Malacca DAP assemblymen and an MP.

He said their action mirrored DAP as a party that does not practise what it preaches.

He said it showed DAP as a party where the leaders had an attitude of bringing down one another in looking after their own political careers to the point of affecting public trust in them.

“Last time when Lim Guan Eng was in Malacca, he was rejected by the DAP members that he ran away to Penang. And there, he removed the DAP leaders there and his party colleagues in Malacca,” he said in a statement today.

Idris said DAP seemed to place importance on certain groups and they had their own agenda instead of thinking of the interests of the people and nation.

“This is the kind of spirit which they claim as openness in DAP but they actually don’t walk the talk.”

The three Malacca assemblymen who quit DAP were Lim Jak Wong (Bachang), Chin Choon Seong (Kesidang) and Goh Leong San (Duyong). The MP who also quit is Sim Tong Him (Kota Melaka).

This was confirmed by state DAP chairman Tey Kok Kiew at a press conference at the Malacca DAP office here today.

Malacca DAP got to know about the four elected representatives’ quit action only through the media as it had not received any announcement or letter on the resignations.