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Central Committee agrees I’m not at fault, says Chin KUCHING: SUPP president Tan Sri Peter Chin is not willing to be faulted for the party’s poor showing in the last general election. “You may recall that I tendered my resignation letter. Today, (during the secretary-general’s report) it was discussed and unanimously rejected. “They (members) realise, they think, they agree that this is not my fault or my inability to lead the party. On the other hand, they also feel that there were one or two constituencies where internal rifts contributed to the defeats. So that’s why they have submitted new complaints,” Chin told reporters, after chairing the party’s Central Committee meeting here yesterday. Chin also told reporters that most members viewed SUPP’s defeat, mostly at the hands of DAP, as a national occurrence. “Put it this way, generally speaking, I think, our Central Committee members, they acknowledge the fact that this is not just SUPP alone (which did badly),” he said, adding Barisan lost in most urban constituencies nationwide. Chin became party president following the party’s 2011 controversial triennial delegates conference. In the general election, he did not defend his Miri constituency, which PKR won by defeating Datuk Sebastian Ting, Chin’s long-serving political secretary. “Most of our members know this is not something to be blamed on Peter Chin or Dr Sim,” Chin added, referring to secretary-general Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian. In the last general election, SUPP lost six out of seven constituencies it contested. It retained the semi-rural Serian constituency, but lost Bandar Kuching, Stampin, Sarikei, Lanang, Sibu and Miri. Yesterday’s meeting passed three resolutions, one of which was calling for all party members to be re-registered to ensure its membership list was accurate. “You see what happened was, one of the problems that cropped up since the last Triennial Delegates Conference was that membership of the branches can include some of the members who have passed away recently, but their next of kin never came to report to us. “It’s just like the voting list of the electoral roll. Their names are still there but they are no longer alive. “Some may have switched to other parties that’s why this re-registration is important, and we have not done it for quite some time.” Dr Sim said the move was normal for political parties. Presently, the membership list contained 118,000 names, he added. Also present during the press conference was disciplinary committee secretary Matthew Chen.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 03:34:16 +0000

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