Unhappy Muda members even have trouble leaving party

July 7, 2023

Unhappy Muda members even have trouble leaving party

PETALING JAYA: Muda members are in a conundrum, with many complaining about being kept in the dark over the party’s direction and the contents of its constitution, but also unsure how they can walk away.

There is no proper channel available for members to hand in a request to leave the party, one member said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“You can send an email to say that you want your membership cancelled, but no one is going to reply. There is no one in charge of membership,” the source said.

He claims that a number of his peers in Muda also have issues with the party and want out of it.

“We have not even been made aware of the party’s constitution. When we ask the leadership about it, they tend to say: ‘It is in the process’,” he said.

According to the member, the grassroots are also not being informed of decisions made by the party’s top leadership.

“They do not share the outcome of their meetings with the members. It is as if the party belongs to a few individuals. The rest of us are left in the dark,” he said.

The party has also received criticism on social media about its handling of membership cancellation requests.

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Twitter users @mtthmzh and @timothy_pablo both said they were waiting word on the status of their applications to quit the party.

“Don’t keep talking about applying for membership because I want to leave this party ASAP,” @timothy_pablo added.

Speaking to FMT, Muda secretary-general Amir Abdul Hadi acknowledged delays in dealing with membership termination requests, attributing it to the need to process then manually.

“If they want to hasten the process, they can email [email protected],” he said.

Amir also explained that Muda has yet to formalise its constitution as the party is waiting for approval from the Registrar of Societies (RoS) for certain amendments it wants to incorporate into the document.

“What we have now is a vanilla constitution provided by the RoS to register our party,

“We have made (proposed) amendments and sent them to the RoS, so we are currently awaiting their approval,” he said.

According to Amir, Muda met with RoS officers as recently as June 13, during which the party’s representatives were told that a response could only be given after the upcoming state elections.

Last week, Muda president Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said the party would go it alone in the elections, after attempts to join Pakatan Harapan (PH) were rebuffed by Prime Minister and coalition chairman Anwar Ibrahim.

This means the party may end up clashing with PH and unity government ally Barisan Nasional in the August polls, despite being a part of the government bloc in the Dewan Rakyat.