KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 -- A total of 70 candidates, many of them familiar faces, will be vying for 30 positions in DAP's upcoming central executive committee (CEC) election.

DAP national organising secretary Steven Sim Chee Keong said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who is also Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman, has also confirmed his attendance.

"The CEC election will be conducted and monitored by an independent third party.

"We are therefore confident that the election will be conducted in a clean, fair and transparent manner," he said in a press conference here at DAP's national headquarters.

The CEC election will take place during the party's 18th National Congress on March 16.

Asked whether the party has invited other coalit...