MCA’s Royal Rumble-1
I am taking a little time off from writing on economic issues. The issue that is piquing up interest is the battle that's engulfing MCA. Allow me to offer some thoughts here. This Chua Soil Soi Lek is a strange fellow. He was willing to bury the hatchet with OTK to build up a strong MCA. The two of them were to re-energize MCA into a political party that will represent all things honorable about the Chinese in Malaysia. Just before the EGM, he decided to pull the rug under the MCA president's feet. Their pairing up was regarded as a partnership made in heaven. The pair is also a good example of the strangest of bedfellows. One is the moral crusader. The other is a tainted individual whose sexploits were publicized by MCA's own snoop squad said to be directed by LTL. OTK was at the forefront battling the shadowy figures behind the PKFZ RM12 bullion financial scandal. A scandal that threatens to disintegrate MCA. The pair promised to rebuild MCA. That is, into the Chinese Party that upholds good values, conducts itself honorably and a party intent of ridding itself with unsavory elements that usually feature when Chinese get together. I am referring to politics mixing up with gangsterism, Chinese triads, ah longs and gamblers. Alas, as the Chinese saying says- you share the same pillow, but you dream different dreams. I am writing as an observer from UMNO. I believe what is happening in MCA mirrors the bowel movements within UMNO. They may develop into severe intestinal complications. Where is MCA going? What kind of MCA is relevant to UMNO at a time when UMNO itself is redefining its role and meaning? What is happening to MCA is of relevance to a rebranded UMNO that professes to adopt a new political philosophy. I hope UMNO leadership is still fired up with its agenda of rebranding. I hope it wasn't just hot air and a royal screw job on us all. What is its rebranding agenda? That agenda is one that is going to internalize higher values, respect for the rule of law, conducts itself honorably. It will be one agenda involving the re-profiling of its leadership, membership and work ethics. It isn't going to sail through by mouthing old battle slogans anymore. Here's the deal. UMNO can't subject itself to a rigorous and intense re branding exercise without also demanding the same from its coalition partners. That being the case, it must be seen to support those elements within MCA that are leading MCA into that direction. UMNO can't condone underhand tactics by underhanded persons that's turning MCA into a mere understudy to UMNO. It must allow MCA to become an honorable party that's capable of earning respect and allegiance of Malaysian Chinese. UMNO can't do that. It cannot allow MCA to forfeit its role to Chinese parties such as DAP for example. I am saying UMNO can't afford to be seen as supporting CSL. Wrong person, wrong values. The present UMNO must also recognize the possibility of role reversals- its coalition partners can also 'teach' UMNO how it redefines itself and makes it relevant to a changing political landscape. Otherwise, the whole concept of BN disintegrates. After all you are all equal partners. What MCA is turning itself into, is an acid test for UMNO as it is for MCA. It reveals what values UMNO is upholding within itself. These values seek affinity with like values elsewhere such as MCA. If at the end of the MCA elections, the dark side triumphs, then that will reveal that falsity of the promises UMNO makes to its own members. That all those talk about reforms and re-engineering, re working the ideals are just a heap of dung. DR Chua Soi Lek is a strange political character. He must have come across some juicy deals that have emboldened him to break off from the dream partnership with OTK. That partnership made in heaven was actually one made in hell and doomed to fail. There couldn't be more contrasting personalities that were brought together than these two. It was a marriage borne out of political expediency. What it did was to give CSL time to regroup and rethink strategies. If he is what he is said as, i.e. commanding 40% of the support of delegates, he now has the emperor's luxury of choosing his partner and laying down the terms of his allegiance.
Titi Tinggi assemblyperson Yip Sun Onn has resigned from the Perlis state assembly with immediate effect, just as MCA is facing a free-for-all party polls this Sunday.
ReplyDeleteWell done.Yip. Show you are disgusted with MCA and BN. BY-election time again.
CSL asked to be given a chance to be the president ? By his own rational that this should be his turn to sit on that chair since the other two have already had their fill with the job? What a shameless and an idiotic appeal this is ?
ReplyDeleteIf you seek political position strictly for the sake of becoming the head of state(in this case the president), most likely you will never achieve true statesmanship. Believe me !
Chutzpah
Dear J4OTK
ReplyDeleteLooks as if Chew Mei Fun screws up again !
By Clara Chooi
KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 — MCA’s Titi Tinggi assemblyman Yip Sun Onn has quit his Perlis state assembly seat, paving the way for a by-election.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohd Isa Sabu today confirmed that he has received the resignation letter but declined to elaborate.
According to the Star Online, the mentri besar is “trying coax Yip into withdrawing his resignation letter”.
Meanwhile, Perlis MCA chief Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun claimed this afternoon that Yip’s shocking resignation was still unconfirmed.
“It is not finalised yet; all he has done is shown his intention to resign. I just received an SMS from him and apparently, things are OK now. I do not think he will do it,” she told The Malaysian Insider when contacted at 3.30pm today.
She believed that Yip was a mature leader and would know what to do and what not to do.
“I hope and I believe that he will not do it but at the moment what we need to do first is to sit down and discuss things,” she said.
She admitted however that she had been trying unsuccessfully to reach Yip since yesterday and was unsure of the reason behind the assemblyman’s resignation.
“I would like to know what is the real problem; whether it is merely because of his exco position or whether he has some other personal problems,” she said.
Yip was removed from the state executive council and replaced with Indera Kayangan assemblyman Dr Por Choo Chor during the swearing in of the new line-up last Friday.
Meanwhile, an MCA party leader confirmed with The Malaysian Insider that Yip’s resignation was indeed due to the latter’s dissatisfaction with his removal from the state executive council and claimed that it was Chew who was the culprit behind it.
The source claimed that the problem had stemmed from last year when Chew refused to endorse Yip’s post as a member of the state executive council since he was not in her “camp” at the time.
Chew, the Wanita MCA chief, has been one of the prominent leaders at the forefront of the campaign with former party vice-president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai to oust party president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat.
“She even wrote to the mentri besar, saying that she did not want Yip to be an exco member. Then last year in February or March, after an MCA central committee meeting, she submitted a letter to the mentri besar saying that the MCA did not want Yip as an exco member.
“Instead, she offered Dr Por’s name as a replacement. When the mentri besar did not listen to her, she got angry and started saying that he did not respect the MCA CC’s wishes,” said the source.
Following that, the source added, an agreement was reached with Mohd Isa that Yip would be replaced with Dr Por in this year’s line-up.
“It was a mistake because she did not realise that Yip would eventually go over to her camp and Dr Por now supports (former MCA deputy president Datuk Seri) Dr Chua Soi Lek so she pushed all the blame to Tee Keat, saying that it was he who wanted to remove Yip from the council.
“And look now, Yip is angry and has decided to quit,” said the source.
Meanwhile, The Malaysian Insider understands that although Yip had submitted his resignation to the Perlis Speaker yesterday, party members are still trying to coax him into retracting his letter.
Efforts to contact Yip proved futile.
MCA Watcher
Yip Sun Onn's case has proved it. You'd still think OKT's involvement will unit MCA ? Wistful thinking perhaps.
ReplyDeleteDisillusioned
Dear Dr Chua,
ReplyDeletePeople will not bother about your private life, what you do is your own business. However for politicians, when their marital infidelity come to light, it is totally a difference matter, role model call into question. That is precisely MCA and BN should worry about that you are a liability as our Malaysian society is still make up mainly of conservative that does not embrace western value.
I am not a MCA member nor link to any political party but a commoner who would like to see MCA alive and kicking. As I believe the chinese community still need MCA to play its part and engage in BN govern.
Without any doubt, MCA cannot afford another split as such, I appeal to you to elegantly withdraw completely from politic for the sake of chinese community. Take it as just unlucky that you miss the train.
Regards.
To all MCA Central Delegates,
The above appeal was sent to Dr Chua email more than a year ago urging him not to seek personal interest but to sacrifice for the sake MCA survival. It is evident today that he is selfish and not listening good to take those drastic path that cause MCA to split ........
That sakmongkol AK47 is full of shit.
ReplyDelete1. If he is so good and kind and all that, why he still stay with UMNO all these years?
2. No matter how good he claimed he is, he has opted to stay with the thieves instead with the people. This by itself has shown what type of shit he is.
3. This shit is no better than Liow Tiong Lai, no better than Wee Ka Siong, this shit is just as hypocrite !
4. To say this say that about MCA, about rebranding, wtf ? No matter what kind of rebranding exercise UMNO goes through, UMNO is still a racist motherfucker organization. Chaning the bottle without changing the wine inside won't change anything.
5. MCA and Tee Keat can do better than to quote that shit sakmongkol AK47
Well , everyone has their own opinion ? right ?
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