KOTA KINABALU: Former Chief
Minister Tan Sri Chong Kah Kiat, 65, dismissed talk making the rounds that he
is going to contest in Kudat, his traditional stronghold, under an opposition
Democratic Action Party (DAP) ticket.
"It is not true. I am
out of active politics," he said when contacted, Saturday.
Speculation was rife about
Chong making a comeback to politics ever since he was visited by a DAP
delegation led by Lim Kit Siang at his residence where they had lunch together.
It became more intense following
the dissolution of the 12th Malaysian Parliament last Wednesday (April 3).
He was elected Kudat
Assemblyman in the March 1981 State Election and served as Assistant Minister
to the Chief Minister during the Berjaya era.
The former President of the
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) became the 13th Chief Minister of Sabah in 2001
under a rotation system mooted by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
In April 2007, Chong
resigned from the Deputy Chief Minister post, citing matters of principle over
the rejection by the State Government to erecting the Mazu (Goddess of the Sea)
statue at its original site.(DE)
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