KOTA KINABALU: The endorsement of the new line-up under the leadership of Datuk Teo Chee Kang by the Registrar of Societies (RoS) is founded on strong and solid legal grounds, said Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) organizing secretary, Peter Chong Su Leong.
He said they did not intend to venture into the futile exercise of debating legal issues in the media.
However, he said it was very unbecoming of Loretto Padua Jr., being a lawyer, to just reveal the half truth in relation to what transpired in the meeting between the two factions in the presence of the Director General of RoS at their Putrajaya office last year.
“When he (Loretto) said that Datuk Teo Chee Kang refused to sign the mediation agreement at the end of the meeting, he conveniently chose to leave out the fact that there was an earlier draft agreement prepared on the advice of the RoS which, among others, recognizes the status quo of the Supreme Council prior to all purported terminations and suspensions by Liew, which Liew refused to sign,” he said in a press statement issued yesterday.
From the outset, Chong said, Liew’s faction had all along placed their reliance on the records of the RoS, which at that time still showed that Liew was the Party president.
However, when the RoS decided not in their favour, they (Liew’s faction) said that the RoS had no authority to make decision.
“It is ironical that Datuk Liew Vui Keong is now asking for election by a democratic process, but he was the one who abused his power to purportedly sack and suspend everyone whom he deemed as a threat to stop them from contesting in the party elections, Chong concluded.