Guan Eng: Boycotting PD shows Umno doesn't fight for principles

Geraldine TongPublished: Sep 25, 2018 2:24 AM | Updated: Oct 14, 2018 4:50 AM

INTERVIEW | Umno boycotting the Port Dickson by-election shows that they are not fighting for their ideals but rather for the glory of power, said Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng.

"As a politician, sometimes you fight even though you know you will not make it, but it is the struggle, the striving in itself.

"Because if you don't fight just because you think you will lose, (if we thought like that) then DAP would have given up many years ago. We lost so badly so many times but we never gave up...

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