Kuala Lampur, March 13 -- The country's most dominant party holds its party election this weekend with no fanfare. Under the radar, like a non-event. Except it is not.

DAP makes up only 40 of the 148 MPs supporting Anwar Ibrahim's government. The pillar of this government which gravitates away as power-broker, similar to its party election, quiet.

Why so? A combination of wanting to be unnoticed, the obscurity of its selection process and the unintended schizophrenia of being abandoned in its nascent years.

For those under the impression since secretary-general Anthony Loke appears oozing with positivity on the MRT screens daily, and organising secretary Steven Sim buys another downtrodden family a motorcycle, therefore all is fine may...