What’s your problem with Najib house arrest, Kian Ming asks DAP

Former DAP MP Ong Kian Ming has raised questions regarding the stance of his former party's leaders on the issue of former Prime Minister Najib Razak being placed under house arrest. Ong, speaking on the Keluar Sekejap podcast, expressed confusion about what precisely the DAP disagreed with in this matter. He wondered whether it was Anwar Ibrahim's decision to bring the case to the Federal Territories Pardons Board, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong's decision on the pardon, or the house detention itself.

Ong had previously recommended that the DAP should have pressured Anwar to remove all Umno ministers from the Cabinet, rather than relying on their secretary-general Loke Siew Fook to resign. He believed that such a move would demonstrate the prime minister's disagreement with Umno's stance on granting the pardon to Najib. Upon his transfer to house arrest on November 10, Najib began serving the remaining six years of his prison sentence for the SRC International case at his home in Kuala Lumpur, with his sentence set to conclude on August 23, 2028.

Following this development, Loke resigned as transport minister, in accordance with a pledge made at the party's central executive committee meeting after the concession of a conditional royal pardon for Najib in September. Nurainie Haziqah Shafii, Muda secretary-general of the DAP, who also participated in the podcast, suggested that the party's position might symbolize a new direction it wishes to communicate to the public about its priorities and the cause it is advocating for.