It is not the Chinese voters but MCA who is afraid of a Malay tsunami in the next polls, a DAP strategist said.

This was because MCA is dependent on Umno’s success, and if Malays no longer voted for Umno and Barisan Nasional, it meant MCA’s political career would also end, said DAP political education director Liew Chin Tong.

“MCA depends not on its own strength but on Umno to survive.

“If Malay voters were to abandon Umno, MCA would also be cast into the dustbin of history,” the Kluang MP told The Malaysian Insight.

The Star today quoted MCA Youth chief Chong Sin Woon as saying that the opposition’s talk of a Malay tsunami was a tactic to scare Chinese voters. 

The deputy education minister said the claim was only to frighten the Chinese into voting for the opposition.

Liew told The Malaysian Insight that the Malay tsunami in the coming polls was a reality, and BN was truly afraid of it.

“When the non-Malays feel that Umno will suffer a huge loss in the tsunami against the party and Prime Minister Najib Razak, the majority of Malaysians will take the chance to see the federal government change for the first time in Malaysian history,” he said.

Recently, former deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin said a Malay tsunami in the next polls would be unstoppable because Malays had lost faith in Umno.

The Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia president said many were turning to the newly fledged party now that they realise Umno was more concerned with defending its leader than with honouring its struggles for race, religion and country.

Muhyiddin said this was making Umno nervous as it faced a wave of rejection even from its grassroots. 

The nervousness was apparent in the way Umno leaders had of late attacked PPBM chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad, such as when Umno vice-president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi threatened to expose the former prime minister if he did not stop criticising Prime Minister Najib Razak, he said. – July 18, 2017.