Fresh Questions About the DAP Election Fiasco and the Mysterious Five Tigers

Expect a flurry of legal threats following the publication of a 16-page booklet, which claims to blow the lid of DAP's 2012 Central Executive Committee (CEC) election fiasco.

Because senior party figures are unlikely to be happy with the content of the booklet, which was written by one Father Augustus Chen, and has been printed in Malay, English, Tamil and Mandarin.

He alleges that the flawed internal election at the party's 16th National Congress was not due to an "unfortunate administrative tabulation error" as claimed by (former) DAP Returning officer Pooi Weng Keong. Father Augustus accuses DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng and his father Lim Kit Siang of "manipulating the vote tabulation" to favour their cronies in the battle for CEC places.

And he has sensationally alleged Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua and Seremban MP Anthony Loke were tasked by the Lim's with fixing the poll results.

Up until now it has been widely reported how the election fiasco helped rescue DAP from a public relations disaster. Ahead of the December 15th poll it had been eager to play up its Malay appeal but the vote ended up returning not a single Malay figure – including golden boy, Bukit Bendera MP Zairil Abdullah, who finished in 39th position with just 305 votes.

But following the recount, he miraculously received 803 votes and was thus vaulted into the CEC in 20th place. Look! DAP does include Malays.

But Father Augustus has told the story of yet another agenda. His booklet claims the Lim's ultimate aim in allegedly fiddling the poll results was to prevent the rise of the so-called "five tigers." He said they are Penang DAP chief Chow Kon Yeow, Perak's Ngeh Koo Ham and Ngah Kor Ming, Johor leader Dr Boo Cheng Hau and Selangor's Teng Chang Khim. Together they could form an obstacle to the succession of the Lim dynasty, meaning the allegedly rigged vote could have been a huge favour from 72-year-old Kit Siang to his famously ambitious son.

From the outset the CEC election fiasco was hugely embarrassing for the party because it had always prided itself on getting things done more professionally and efficiently than the other parties. But Father Augustus has shone a spotlight on far more sinister motives. He has raised the possibility that there was more at stake than having no Malays faces on the CEC and that the Lim's saw the election fiasco as a price they were prepared to pay for the father – son succession.

Expect the writs to fly thick and fast soon, but DAP will also be pressured to explain itself in the wake of this latest bombshell.