Is DAP turning into a new MCA?
The party faces a critical decision soon on how to win back its disillusioned base ahead of Malaysia’s next general election.
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Surrounded by supporters, DAP secretary-general and Transport Minister Anthony Loke (centre) marching towards the nomination centre in Negeri Sembilan on July 18.
ST PHOTO: LU WEI HOONG
James Chin
As a battered Democratic Action Party (DAP) heads into another high-stakes state election in August, the challenges before it are not simply one of the number of seats it hopes to secure in Negeri Sembilan.
The questions go deeper: What does it hope to achieve as a political party? What compromises will it accept to achieve its ends? What does it even stand for in a political landscape that is still fundamentally race-based but whose contours are rapidly shifting with each electoral test?