BEST political statement 2018 (8)

FMT - DAP: We won’t play race game in Raub (extracts):

Ariff Sabri better known as Sakmongkol AK47 

Mohd Ariff Sabri Abdul Aziz captured the seat for DAP in 2013. He got 23,415 votes against BN candidate Hoh Khai Mun’s 20,601.
Between 1978 and 2013, Raub was represented in Parliament by BN MPs from MCA. They included former MCA president Tan Koon Swan and former MCA Wanita chief Ng Yen Yen.

Mohd Ariff suffered a stroke in May last year and is not expected to defend the seat in GE14.

A well placed source in Pahang DAP recently said the party would be fielding a Chinese candidate in Raub although it is a Malay-majority area.

The source told FMT the choice was between DAP vice-chairman Teresa Kok, former Selangor exco Ronnie Liu and Leong.

Sweetie Teresa Kok 

Salt-of-the-Earth Ronnie Liu 

Asked whether DAP would consider fielding a Malay candidate instead if BN were to field one, Leong said it was unlikely.

“We will not waste time or resources worrying about race,” he said. “It is the preoccupation with race that has made our country backward.”

Another BEST political statement for this year, to wit, what has been said by DAP's Leong Ngah Ngah, that:

Leong Ngah Ngah

“We will not waste time or resources worrying about race. It is the preoccupation with race that has made our country backward.”

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