DAP will reassess its policy on members accepting honorific titles, acknowledging the need for change, says party secretary-general Anthony Loke.
Speaking at DAP’s national congress on Sunday (March 16), Loke noted that the current policy, which requires elected representatives to decline state and federal awards, may be too rigid.
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Speaking at DAP’s national congress on Sunday (March 16), Loke noted that the current policy, which requires elected representatives to decline state and federal awards, may be too rigid.
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00:00I know this issue has been heated for a long time, which is the issue of Anugerah.
00:12Before this, we had a base that did not allow any representative of the DAP to accept the Anugerah, Dato' and so on.
00:22But now, after 17 years of being in various governments and in the current central government,
00:34we certainly need to reconsider these conditions in our base.
00:41It cannot be too strict, because sometimes there are sultans who want to award Dato' Syif to our representatives.
00:53For example, Duryama Mulya, Sultan Selangor, Tengku Sultan Selangor,
01:00openly said that they want to award Dato' to Ng Suy Lim.
01:06Tengku Sultan Selangor openly said that Ng Suy Lim wants to award Dato' to Ng Suy Lim.
01:14But according to the conditions of the party, he cannot accept it.
01:17If Ng Suy Lim does not accept it, he will be punished.
01:20So Ng Suy Lim was forced to accept it.
01:25Tengku Bagi, Tengku Tita, Tengku Anugerah, we bow to Tengku.
01:38So if there are too strict conditions, maybe we will be a little rough.
01:44So we let it go.
01:46And I say, I am not asking Dato' Syif.
01:50Dato' Sri Anwar Ibrahim is very strict in his awarding.
01:56And I am not asking for anything.
01:58I feel that I remain as a uncle, a relative.
02:04But if there are any representatives who are proposed by Tengku Sultan or the head of state,
02:14it must be laid out to the CEC to be considered case-to-case basis.
02:21In a more flexible way.
02:27So we will discuss this more flexible basis.
02:31But of course there must be conditions.
02:34We do not want to have a culture where if you want to join DAP,
02:38in less than three months, you have to ask the ministers, ask Ali Esco,
02:43propose Ali Ali to become Dato'.
02:46That is not our culture.
02:48So that is something we must avoid.