Dr Koh still an acting president

The Star - 9 April 2007: "I don’t want to be acting president forever"

Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon, who declared that he wants party elections as soon as possible, said he did not want to be acting president for “longer than necessary.”

He said it was not true that he would be acting president until 2010 as suggested by Speaker Datuk Dr Chin Fook Weng at the start of the extraordinary national delegates’ conference here yesterday.

“I do not know how he arrived at that year but it is not the intention of the leadership to have me as acting president without a party election,” Dr Koh told members of the media before chairing the central committee meeting, his first after taking over the leadership from Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik.

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