Don’t set pre-condition, DAP tells PKR

The PKR-DAP seat talks that were to have kicked off this week appear to have foundered even before their representatives can meet.
This came about after the DAP told opposition ally PKR not to set any pre-conditions for the negotiations in their electoral pact - and even denied that any agreement had been made with the latter to start the talks this week.
“Don’t talk about pre-conditions when we haven’t even started talking,” DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng told malaysiakini today, in reference to PKR’s request to seek a revision of the seat-distribution formula.
“There must be sincerity (in the talks), otherwise there won’t be an ideal outcome. I don’t want to engage in this media game, let us (both parties) meet in private. This is the game they (PKR) want to play but I am not interested.”

PKR vice-president and election bureau head Azmin Ali had revealed yesterday that the party is eyeing a contest in 60 parliamentary and 120 state seats in the next general election. The majority of the seats are expected to be in Penang, Selangor and Sabah.
Azmin also said the party hoped to revise the seat-distribution formula which has been used in the past. He said PKR wanted to contest more Malay- and Chinese-majority seats, which are traditionally contested by PAS and DAP respectively.
Agreeing, PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim had stressed that the previous formula should not be made a “definite rule” during the seat negotiation.
‘Anwar told us differently’
Lim, however, claimed this was “different” from what Anwar had told DAP in the past.
“Anwar told DAP leaders several times that the Chinese-majority seats will be contested by the DAP. He said it not only to me, but to DAP leaders - for example, at the luncheon address (at the DAP retreat recently) and again, openly during the Machap by-election campaign,” said Lim.
On the same note, Lim said he was surprised at Azmin’s statement that the PKR-DAP seat talks were scheduled to start this week.
“That is news to me, so far I have not heard anything, nothing so far. If there is communication (with the DAP), it would have come from Anwar. I don’t think Azmin has ever communicated with any of the DAP leaders because they would have informed me,” he said.

tunku : dap actually don't really knows who anwar is, he had never ask people to do something himself, he always like to use other people so he will always look clean. remember how he used zahid hamidi during his time in umno? anyway the opposition pact is a very loose pact, everyone sharing the same bed but different dreams.this coalition will never work.the had tried since 1990(4 GE)