{"id":107,"date":"2013-12-02T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=107"},"modified":"2013-12-02T09:03:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T01:03:24","slug":"keeping-in-touch-with-grassroots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Keeping in touch with grassroots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0of SUPP, Tan Sri Peter Chin who held a 7-hour meeting with 72 Central Committee\u00a0(CC) members today (01 Dec 2013) urged them to go back to their respective branches and\u00a0erased the names of the members who had passed on.<\/p>\n<p>Chin\u00a0who held a press conference after the CC meeting told reporters that there were\u00a0around 3 percent of elderly members who had passed on and their names were\u00a0still in the party member list. The party has 118,000 members.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0advised the CC members to go back and verified the name list and it was\u00a0important they do so as the Triennial Delegates Conference (TDC) would be on\u00a0next year. He said it was to prevent a repeat of what had happened in the last\u00a0TDC where there was accusation of irregularities by losers of the party\u00a0election.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0the complaints, Chin said the problem pertaining to Bekenu and Piasau was\u00a0mostly technical than anything, as they had held the election in a normal\u00a0procedure.\u201d But still, we do not want any shortcoming for some to go and lodge\u00a0complaints against us thus we want to ensure that things are done accordingly\u00a0to the procedure,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Calling\u00a0the meeting a frank one, Chin said the CC members had stated their points,\u00a0their suggestions and their grievances. \u201cWe want the members to come to us on\u00a0any matters instead of keeping it all bogged inside them. We as the CWC members\u00a0should also enlighten them on any changes or any issues of the party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0asked about the old guards and those who lost to leave the party, Chin pointed\u00a0out that it was normal for the elderly SUPP leaders to take leave and let the\u00a0young ones take over. He said that was why they had the TDC to elect in leaders\u00a0according to what the grass root leaders want.<\/p>\n<p>He,\u00a0however disagreed that should a young leader lost once in an election, they\u00a0should leave. Chin cited an example where Wong Soon Koh lost once in the\u00a0election and returned back to fight again and he is a Minister today.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0believes that a young candidate should come back to stand even though he has\u00a0lost once as it is illogical for the young losing candidate to give up\u00a0immediately as they may have a lot to contribute to the party.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/partyleaders.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108\" alt=\"Datuk David (left), Dr Sim and Tan Sri Peter Chin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/partyleaders.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/partyleaders.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/partyleaders-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Datuk David (left), Dr Sim and Tan Sri Peter Chin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0of SUPP, Tan Sri Peter Chin who held a 7-hour meeting with 72 Central Committee\u00a0(CC) members today (01 Dec 2013) urged them to go back to their respective branches and\u00a0erased the names of the members who had passed on. Chin\u00a0who held a press conference after the CC meeting told reporters that there were\u00a0around 3 percent of elderly members who had passed on and their names were\u00a0still in the party member list. The party has 118,000 members. He\u00a0advised the CC members to go back and verified the name list and it<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=107\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}