Kelvin Yii: Winds of change sweeping through DAP Youth

INTERVIEW | When the results for the DAP Youth election were rolled out last weekend, there was a historic change at the top of the tree. Pasir Pinji assemblyperson Howard Lee was replaced by Dr Kelvin Yii, MP for Bandar Kuching.

The 35-year-old comfortably won a three-way tussle with two candidates from Selangor – outgoing DAP Youth secretary Eric Teh Hoong Keat and Bandar Utama representative Jamaliah Jamaluddin.

Yii, who trained in medicine in Volgograd, Russia and then in law in the UK, is no stranger to politics' ups and downs, having already tasted great success and bitter defeat. 

In 2018, he won his parliamentary seat by...