MCA to get back Gelang Patah, Wangsa Maju from Umno

The Malaysian Insight The Malaysian Insight Updated 6 years ago · Published on 22 Jan 2018 11:00AM · 4 Comments

Gelang Patah MCA division chairman Jason Teoh released a short video about his frustration at not being named the Barisan Nasional candidate in Gelang Patah in the 2013 elections. – Facebook pic, January 22, 2018.

MCA candidates will contest in Gelang Patah (Johor) and Wangsa Maju (Kuala Lumpur), two parliamentary seats that were loaned to Umno in the 13th general election in 2013.

However, discussions are ongoing on whether Kuantan, another traditional MCA seat loaned to Umno, would be returned to the country’s biggest ethnic Chinese party in the Barisan Nasional coalition.

Sources told The Malaysian Insight that chances of Kuantan being returned to MCA are slim.

The three seats were loaned to the lynchpin party in BN for strategic reasons.

At that time, Umno felt it was better placed to win over Malay votes in these racially mixed seats.

Umno secretary-general Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said Wangsa Maju has always been an Umno seat and was loaned to MCA temporarily in 2004 and 2008.

When these three seats were given to Umno in 2013, MCA grassroots feared that the seats could be gone for good.

Umno lost in all three seats in 2013.

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang beat former Johor menteri besar Abdul Ghani Othman to win Gelang Patah in 2013 by 14,762 votes. The voter turnout was 89.07%.

A DAP source previously told The Malaysian Insight Lim will defend Gelang Patah.
MCA is likely to field its Gelang Patah division chairman Jason Teoh, who released a short video about his frustration at having to make way for Ghani at the eleventh hour on Facebook on Saturday.

MCA Wangsa Maju division chief Yew Teong Look, will likely stand again in the 14th general election as the BN candidate in Wangsa Maju.

Yew, a one-term MP for Wangsa Maju MP (2004-2008), refused to campaign for Umno in 2013.

Umno held the seat between 1995 and 2004.

PKR’s Wee Choo Keong beat Yew to win the BN stronghold in 2008 with a slim majority of 150 votes.

In 2013, PKR’s Tan Kee Kwong defeated BN’s Mohd Shafei Abdullah by 5,511 votes.

The Kuantan seat was held by Fu Ah Kiow who won it in the 2004 general election but lost it to the current incumbent Fuziah Salleh in 2008.

Fuziah defeated Fu by 1,826 votes. – January 22, 2018.

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  • MCA don't dream and talk too much, or umno gangsters will spit on your face.

    Posted 6 years ago by Ali Along · Reply

    • UMNO have spited on MCA faces years ago.

      Posted 6 years ago by Mohanarajan murugeson · Reply

  • What is the use? The reason UMNO is willing to give to MCA is because they know even UMNO has no chance. Mahathir guarantees MCA will lose - not just Gelang Patah and Wangsa Maju but everything else too. MCA can only win if PAS help, like they help UMNO - the reason why UMNO think Kuantan still has a chance and will not give it up.

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply

  • It's not UMNO or MCA seats anymore. They've lost the plot and people are not going to get shafted anymore.

    Posted 6 years ago by Shovel Nose · Reply