LDP faction ousts VK Liew with no-confidence vote: KOTA KINABALU, Oct 6 — Despite Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s recent call for unity, the rebel faction of the troubled Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) led by its senior leaders senator Datuk Chin Su Phin and Datuk Teo Chee Kang, went ahead with a separate Special Meeting of the Party Conference today and voted overwhelmingly in favour of a vote of no confidence in its president Datuk VK Liew. Delegates at the Special Meeting of the Party, organised by this faction, at Kian Kok Middle School’s Multipurpose Hall, near here, also unanimously endorsed the resolution passed by the Supreme Council on September 10, this year, to remove Liew from his position as the party president. In announcing the results, LDP Special Meeting chairman Frank Leong said the delegates also endorsed that Senator Datuk Chin Su Phin to be the acting president in accordance with Clause 12 © of the party constitution with immediate effect. Apart from that resolution, the delegates passed other resolutions, including endorsing the resolution passed by the supreme council on Sept 10 to suspend the membership of Liew and its newly appointed secretary-general Loretto S. Padua, pending action by the disciplinary committee. The other resolutions support that the purported termination or suspension of the office bearers in the supreme council or divisional level since August 27, this by the party president, were ultra vires and not done in compliance with the party constitution and are therefore void. The delegates also agreed that all the purported new appointees by the party president to replace the officer bearers so terminated were not done in compliance with the party constitution and their appoitments are therefore void. Some 468 delegates from 27 divisions out of 31 divisions throughout the state attended the special meeting. Expressing concern over the leadership crisis in the party, Muhyiddin, who is also BN deputy chairman, was quoted as saying , here, last week that he had directed BN secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor to discuss with these parties whether there was a possibility of reconciling or solving the problems and achieving understanding to mitigate them. The LDP leadership crisis came to a boil recently after LDP secretary Datuk Teo Chee Kang announced that he would run for president. Liew then sacked Teo for allegedly violating the party’s constitution and failing to carry out instructions of the supreme council members. Liew was quoted as asserting that the supreme council meeting on June 9 had decided that the posts of president and deputy president were not to be contested to avoid a split among members, and the minutes of the meeting were recorded by Teo, who is also the Minister of Special Functions in the Chief Minister’s Department.— Bernama dlvr.it/45HGWK
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 10:11:19 +0000
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