Monday, July 10, 2023

DAP dismisses links to ex-assembly member in same-sex marriage


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DAP dismisses links to ex-assembly member in same-sex marriage


Chong Eng says the former Penang assembly member had long left Malaysia and no longer represented DAP.



Wanita DAP chief Chong Eng said the party had no knowledge of the woman’s personal matters after she left Malaysia for the US. (Facebook pic)


PETALING JAYA: Wanita DAP chief Chong Eng has dismissed links with a former assemblywoman said to have undergone a same-sex marriage.

Chong said the unity government does not support the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

She said the woman in question is understood to have relocated to the US after leaving Malaysia several years ago and no longer represented DAP, having retired from politics.

“We also have no knowledge about (her personal matters) after she left Malaysia,” she said, according to Berita Harian.

“But I want to stress that the government of the day does not support the LGBT community, so don’t use this issue as a political ploy,” she told Pakatan Harapan’s rivals.

Social media had been abuzz over the ex-assembly member, formerly of DAP, after photographs of her and her foreign partner were widely shared. The Penang Islamic religious council later said it would investigate the matter.


kt comments: Re last sentence above, WTF for? Even if said person was still in Malaysia, she is a non-Muslim and outside Malaysian Islamic jurisdiction!!!





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