COMMENT | It's 'dia-mau-kerusi' season again in the DAP A - COMMENT | It has been a long-running joke within the DAP after years of seeing desperate leaders fighting to garner seats to contest, that democracy in the party should be more aptly called “dia mau kerusi”, or “he/she wants a seat”. I had to laugh when I read that a rather petrifying foreign observer commented that DAP leaders were having another slugfest between "Chinese chauvinists" versus "Malaysian Malaysians" and yet all the protagonists on both sides had western names like Ronnie, Tony, Hannah, Anthony… Yes, you do not have to be an expert political analyst to know that it is election time again in the DAP at federal and state levels and that all the name-calling has less to do with democracy than with “dia mahu kerusi”.