{
  "id": 16280505,
  "title": "Saya tarik diri, kata bekas ketua DAP Melaka berkait pelan ‘PH Plus’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/24/saya-tarik-diri-kata-bekas-ketua-dap-melaka-berkait-pelan-ph-plus",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-24T04:04:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2026/10/24/saya-tarik-diri-kata-bekas-ketua-dap-melaka-berkait-pelan-ph-plus"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Damian Yeo, former head of the DAP in Melaka, has announced that he will boycott the Pakatan Harapan (PH) campaign for the PRN Melaka on November 14th due to reports suggesting that PH plus might hand over the Bemban constituency to Bersatu. Yeo told me he was first informed of this plan when he met with another former DAP Melaka head, Tey Kok Kiew, recently to discuss PH's strategy for the upcoming PRN election. However, upon learning about the plan to surrender Bemban to Bersatu, Yeo's reaction was, \"Forget it, I pull back.\" The wounds inflicted by such a betrayal are too painful to forget, even if it were to be forgiven, he said, referring to Bersatu's role in the collapse of the federal and Melaka PH governments in 2020. After hearing all this, Yeo decided to quit politics altogether. There's no more politics or election campaign for me. There's something more beneficial for me to do in my life. I hope everyone succeeds, Yeo said in a Facebook post. Yeo was appointed to head DAP Melaka in 2021 following a reshuffle as Tey stepped down. He relinquished the position two years later. Yeo, who is also a lawyer, was elected as Adun Duyong in 2018 with a narrow 2,895 votes. He lost the seat to Noor Helmy Abdul Halem of Umno in PRN 2021 by a margin of just 200 votes. PH Melaka insists it will contest the upcoming PRN election alone, but speculation about potential alignment with Bersatu continues to swirl after a dinner meeting between PH state and Bersatu leadership last month, even though the DAP representative did not attend.",
  "summary": "Damian Yeo menolak kerjasama pilihan raya PH dan Bersatu atas alasan luka akibat Langkah Sheraton pada 2020 belum sembuh.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}